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THE  SCIENTIFIC  DIAL 
PRIMER 


CONTAINING  UNIVERSAL  CODE 

ELEMENTS  OF  UNIVERSAL 

LANGUAGE,  NEW  BASE 

FOR  MATHEMATICS 

ETC. 


By 

A.     HALLNER 


SAN  FRANCISCO,   CALIFORNIA 
1912 

Sunset  Publishing  House,  1912 


COPYRIGHT  1912 

BY 
ANDREW  HALLNER 

Entered  at  Stationary  Hall 
London,  1912 

All  rights  reserved. 


Motto: 
Brevity 
Simplicity 
Legibility 


239257 


AIM 

Glory  To  God  In  The  Highest, 
On  Earth  Peace, 
Good  Will  Toward  Men. 
—St.  Luke,  2:14. 


OBJECT 

International  Inter-communication ; 

Acknowledgment  of  Universal  Brotherhood  Realized  in  Actual  Appli- 
cation; 

Development  of  the  Human  Race  to  the  Highest  Standard  of  Man- 
hood and  Womanhood: — 
In  Stature  and  Soul; 
In  Truth  and  Righteousness; 
In  Knowledge  and  Efficiency; 
In  Wisdom  and  Dignity; 
In  Godliness  and  Nobility; 
In  Happiness,  Enjoyment  and  Serenity; 

In  comprehending  more  fully  the  Divine  purpose  and  object  of 
our  existence  and  being  under  the  present  dispensation,  and  the 
existence  and  activities  of  the  faithful  in  God's  kingdom. 


Preface 

The  Scientific  Dial  is  in  line  with  the  telegraph,  the  telephone,  and 
the  advanced  business  and  trade  methods  in  general,  as  is  the  aero- 
plane in  line  with  the  steamship,  the  railroad,  and  electricity  in  rapid 
transportation  and  the  effort  to  escape  the  bondage  of  limitation; 
it  is  an  advance  step  in  progress.  Invention  and  improvement  have 
for  their  objects  the  shortening  of  distances  and  substitution  of 
mechanical  operations  for  manual  labor;  or  where  this  cannot  be 
effected,  to  make  one's  efforts  easy  and  en  joy  able;  to  increase  efficiency 
and  executive  ability;  to  simplify  methods  and  to  make  easier  the 
attainment  of  proficiency;  to  stimulate  enterprise,  and  to  enable 
anyone  to  accomplish  greater  results  in  shorter  space  of  time. 

The  U.  S.  Mail  is  too  slow  for  the  twentieth-century  business  man. 
Even  the  average  active  farmer,  who  has  become  accustomed  to 
the  telephone  and  the  rural  free  delivery  of  mails  once  a  day,  is 
wishing  for  more  rapid  long-distance  communication.  Our  sphere 
of  observation  and  activity  is  widened  as  our  knowledge  increases 
and  our  mind  broadens;  and  as  fast  as  our  field  of  observation  and 
activity  extends,  must  the  facility  and  rapidity  of  communication 
be  increased.  Electricity  and  electrical  contrivances  have  made  one 
household  of  all  nations,  having  placed  all  inhabitants  on  our  globe 
within  reaching  distance  of  one  another. 

The  Scientific  Dial  is  a  natural  evolution,  a  link,  as  it  were,  in  the 
chain  of  inventions  and  improvements,  leading  up  to  the  twentieth- 
century  development  toward  higher  attainments,  loftier  aspirations, 
and  grander  achievements,  animated  by  divine  impulses  and  ennob- 
ling motives  to  a  higher  standard  of  citizenship,  and  adding  to  the 
general  enjoyment  and  happiness  of  humanity;  moving  and  develop- 
ing steadily  toward  the  fulfilment  of  prophecy,  and  a  condition  on 
this  globe  in  conformity  with  the  Divine  purpose,  as  manifested  by 
revelation. 

The  SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  PRIMER  simply  contains  the  rudiments  of  the 
Scientific  Dial  System.  Nevertheless,  its  contents  has  to  be  acquired 
before  the  student  can  enter  upon  the  mastery  of  that  which  is  to 
follow. 

Americans  are  known  to  be  alert  in  watching  for  advancement, 
and  ready  always  to  support  and  encourage  useful  invention,  and 
to  assist  in  hastening  improvements.  This  knowledge  and  this  assur- 


6  Preface 

ance  enables  me  now  to  add  this  mite  of  scientific  research  for  the 
enjoyment  and  benefit  of  the  human  family. 

Profits  derived  from  the  sale  of  this  book  will  be  used  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  system.  The  best  talent  obtainable  will  be  employed. 
My  aim  is  to  have  the  SYSTEM  developed  and  available  to  the 
world  at  the  great  Panama  Exposition  in  San  Francisco,  1915. 

A.  HALLNER, 
San  Francisco,  CaL,  Bamelapa. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Portrait — Frontispiece 

Title  Page 1 

Copyrights 2 

Motto 3 

Aim  and  Object 4 

Preface 5 

Introduction 7 

Keyboard  and  explanations 12,  46 

Sounds  of  letters  and  pronunciation  of  words 19 

THE  SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  PRIMER — 

Lesson   I.,    Description 20 

Lesson  II.,   Numerical  values 20 

Lesson  III.,  Decimal  fractions 22 

Lesson  IV.,  Combining  whole  numbers  with  decimals 23 

Lesson  V.,  More  than  one  consonant  to  the  Grand  Division  vowel 24 

Lesson  VI.,  Vowels  used  outside  Grand  Divisions 24 

Lessons  VII.,  VIII.  &  IX.,  Analytical  Exercises 26,  30,  35 

Lesson  X.,  Days,  weeks,  months,  and  years 37 

Lesson  XL,   Analytical   Exercises 39 

Lesson  XII.,  Telegrams  and  demonstration  of  keys 42 

Code  Department 47 

Travelers'  Code 63 

Lovers'  Code 77 

Leap-year  Code 99 

Greetings 137 

Pronouns,  adjectives,  adverbs  and  verbs 143,  144 

Vocabulary,  English  Dial   148 


Introduction 


The  clock  dial  has  long  been  an  object  of  close  observation,  few 
objects  having  attracted  so  much  attention  or^being^looked  upon  so 
attentively.  •"  ;, 

The  reason  forjthis  is  that  the  dial  is  an  indicator  of  time.  Some 
dials  indicate  the^date  of  the  month,  the  day  of  the  week,  and  phases 
of  the  moon. 

The  Scientific  Dial  is  an  evolution.  It  is  an  indicator  of  time  on 
a  somewhat  different  scale,  also  of  quantity  and  quality,  and  also 
delving  into  mathematics  and  language,  as  the  following  pages  will 
explain  and  demonstrate. 


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8  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

The  dial  of  a  watch  or  a  clock  needs  no  interpreter.  Its  language 
is  universal.  Everybody  reads  it  and  understands  it,  including  even 
the  illiterate,  who,  though  unable  to  read  a  book,  still  intelligently 
read  the  clock-dial,  and  call  it  into  evidence  in  matters  of  meal-time 
and  quitting-time. 

All  nations  have  surrendered  to  the  domination  of  its  system,  and 
they  are  governed  by  its  mandates  without  opposition  or  murmur. 

It  rules  supreme  in  every  royal  court  in  the  world. 

Kings  and  emperors  submit,  and  armies  move  according  to  its 
direction;  and  the  sound  of  its  "gong"  prompts  the  execution  of 
convicts. 

By  its  mandate  and  direction  church-bells  toll,  congregations 
assemble,  choirs  sing,  sermons  are  preached,  and  lectures  are  deli- 
vered. 

At  the  point  of  its  hands  justice  dons  its  ermine,  the  priest  his 
surplice;  the  bride  is  attired  and  adorned,  the  bridal  suite  approaches 
the  altar,  sacred  vows  are  made,  a  family  established;  a  cornerstone 
of  the  community  and  state  is  laid,  government  instituted,  laws 
enacted,  order  and  safety  assured. 

Yet  the  whole  mechanism  may  be  purchased  for  a  dollar. 

Nevertheless,  it  is  the  cherished  daily  companion  of  everybody; 
and  it  is  often  appreciated  as  an  adjunct  to  the  diploma  by -school 
graduates. 

Attired  in  gold  and  adorned  with  jewels,  it  is  held  in  high  esteem 
as  a  present  among  admirers  and  friends. 


The  graceful  disk  form  is  pleasing  to  the  eye,  easily  surveyed  and 
readily  comprehended.  Its  form,  Grand  Divisions  and  Subdivisions 
readily  and  effectively  impress  the  mind  and  become  fixed — a  mind- 
picture,  appearing  at  all  times  by  auto-suggestion,  or  when  called 
upon  for  use  or  demonstration  by  outside  influences. 

But  the  Scientific  Dial  needs  no  mechanism. 

It  needs  no  interpreter. 

Like  the  common  clock  dial,  the  Scientific  Dial  is  self-explaining. 

Any  one  who  can  group  letters  into  syllables  and  arrange  syllables 
into  words,  can  understand  and  make  use  of  the  Scientific  Dial. 

And -in  so  doing,  one  touches  every  language  in  the  world. 

Taking,  for  instance,  the  First  Grand  Division,  we  find  among  its 
forty  words  of  two  letters  each:  ab,  ad  (prefixes),  ah,  am,  an,  as, 
at;  ba,  fa,  ka,  la,  ma,  na,  pa,  that  are  English.  In  the  three-letter 
class  of  words,  we  find  bad,  bag,  bah,  bal,  bam,  ban,  bap,  bas,  bat, 
baw,  bay;  cab,  cad,  caf,  cam,  can,  cat;  dab,  dad,  daf,  dal,  dam,  dan, 
dap;  fag,  fan,  fat,  far;  gab,  gad,  gag,  gal,  gam,  gan,  gap,  gar,  gas,  gaw, 
gay;  had,  hag,  ham,  hap,  has,  hat,  hay;  jab,  jad,  jag,  jah,  jam,  jap, 
jar,  jaw,  jay,  etc.,  that  are  English  words. 

There  are  about  440  words  of  this  class  in  the  First  Grand  Division; 
and  it  is  remarkable  to  notice  how  many  of  these  are  English  words. 
The  same  will  be  found  true  in  all  Five  Grand  Divisions. 


The 

SCIENTIFIC!  DIAL 
PRIMER 


CONTAINING    UNIVERSAL    CODE,    ELEMENTS   OF 
UNIVERSAL     LANGUAGE,    AND     NEW     BASE 
FOR    MATHEMATICS 


-  HAIXNER* 


10  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

The  Scientific  Dial  contains: 

200  one-syllable  two-letter  words. 

2,525  one-syllable  three-letter  words. 

8,000  two-syllable  four-letter  words;  consisting  of  two  vowels  and 
two  consonants.  Such  as  baeb  (1.21),  pail  (12.49),  dear  (23.14),  and 
about 

12,000  in  the  second  class  of  four-letter  words,  such  as  baba  (101), 
baca  (102),  bada  (103),  bade  (123),  beda  (1003),  ceda  (2003),  etc. 

Adding  another  letter,  as,  Elana  (1911),  swells  the  list  of  words 
almost  beyond  calculation. 

All  these  words  follow  one  another  in  regular,  natural  succession, 
without  intervals  and  breaks;  they  are  therefore  especially  adapted 
for  the  use  of 

Code  Words, 

as  any  word  may  be  readily  found  by  the  same  rule  as  words  are 
found  in  a  dictionary  or  the  pages  in  a  book.  One  other  feature  of 
great  importance  in  CODE-MAKING  will  be  the  secrecy  afforded  in 
the  system  of  Scientific  Dial  Codes,  by  the 

Use  of  Keys, 

just  as  in  music  the  scale  may  be  changed  by  sharps  and  flats,  from 
one  to  seven  degrees  in  either,  and  the  changing  of  the  scale  from 
minor  to  major,  and  vice  versa. 

The  Keyboard 

The  Scientific  Dial  Keyboard  affords  an  endless  combination  of 
keys.  In  music,  we  have  an  ascending  and  descending  scale  with 
keys;  so  also  in  the  Scientific  Dial  Arrangement.  But  the  staff  in 
music  affords  only  14  keys — 7  sharps  and  7  flats — while  the  Scientific 
Dial  System  may  lavish  innumerable  keys,  and  only  one  in  the  bundle 
will  open  your  door,  whichever  you  may  choose. 


Introduction  11 

TWELVE  DISTINCT  CLASSES  OF  KEYS* 

1.  The  Natural  Key.     Follows  direct  designation. 

2.  The  Progressive  Key.     Follows  the  Dial  in  its  natural  course. 

3.  The  Reverse  Key.     Turns  in  the  opposite  direction. 

4.  Complex  Progressive. 

5.  Complex  Reverse. 

6.  Inflected  Complex  Progressive. 

7.  Inflected  Complex  Reverse. 

8.  Complex  Inflected  Progressive. 

9.  Complex  Inflected  Reverse. 

10.  Inflected  Complex  Projected. 

11.  Complex  Inflected  Projected  Progressive. 

12.  Complex  Inflected  Projected  Reverse. 

Each  class  of  these,  except  the  first  or  Natural  Key,  is  capable  of 
innumerable  variations.  By  a  careful  study  of  the  diagrams,  these 
various  keys  are  easily  detected  and  understood,  though  to  under- 
stand and  to  penetrate  all  the  variations  in  each  and  every  class  is 
almost  as  impossible  as  it  is  to  state  the  number  of  words  the  English 
alphabet  is  capable  of  forming. 

Suppose,  then,  that  two  persons  or  firms  agree  to  correspond  in 
the  key  of  "Da"  (3)  Progressive,  which  would  mean  three  points  or 
code-words  forward;  then  the  third  code-word,  the  one  designated 
included,  would  be  the  one  intended;  if  the  Reverse  Key  were  agreed 
upon,  then  the  third  code-word  in  the  opposite  direction,  including  the 
designator,  would  be  the  one  intended. 

By  Designator  is  meant  the  written  code-word  in  the  message. 

The  intended  code-word  may  be  found  only  by  knowing  the  key 
agreed  upon  by  the  corresponding  parties. 

Everybody  would  always  know,  or  at  least  suspect,  that  the  code- 
word written  or  telegraphed  as  "designator"  were  not  the  one  really 
intended,  but  that  by  the  use  of  a  key  some  other  one,  which  no  one 
could  know  without  knowing  the  particular  key  agreed  upon  by  the 
corresponding  persons  or  parties. 

The  Scientific  Dial  Code  System  is  therefore  universal  in  construc- 
tion and  character.  If  translated  into  every  language  in  the  world, 
and  if  it  were  found  in  every  hamlet  and  used  by  every  intelligent 
being  on  our  globe,  still  every  firm  and  every  business  institution 
would  in  it  have  its  own  private  code,  by  reason  of  its  keys,  which 
makes  the  code  of  one  a  secret  to  another  and  to  every  other  person 
in  the  world. 

This  key  feature  of  the  Scientific  Dial  Code  System  may  be  further 
illustrated  by  referring  to  the  "Combination  Safe-lock/'  which  no 
one  can  open  without  knowing  the  combination,  no  matter  if  the 
same  kind  of  lock  is  used  on  every  safe  and  vault  in  the  world. 

*  For  demonstration  see  Lesson  XII,  page  42. 


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Introduction  13 

THE  KEY  DIAGRAM 

In  the  study  of  the  Key  diagram  and  the  use  of  keys,  it  is  important 
to  bear  in  mind  and  thoroughly  understand: 

1st.  That  by  the  Indicator  is  meant  the  intended  code-word, 
always  found  on  the  center  line,  and  is  equal  to  the  Natural  Key. 

2nd.  That  by  the  Designator  is  meant  the  written  Keyword, 
intended  to  lead  investigators  and  everybody  else  away  from  the 
Indicator. 

3d.  That  the  Progressive  Keys  operate  below  the  center  line,  as 
demonstrated  in  figure  No.  2. 

4th.  That  the  Reverse  Keys  operate  above  the  center  line,  as 
demonstrated  in  Fig.  1. 

5th.  That  the  Indicator  always  follows  or  rests  upon  the  center 
line,  but  that 

6th.  The  Designator  is  located  on  the  Keyline,  whichever  that 
may  be. 

Take,  for  example,  the  code-word  "Bab"  on  page  47.  You  want 
to  inform  your  friend  that  you  want  to  go  to  the  city  the  next  day, 
but  you  don't  want  any  one  but  him  to  know  it.  You  have  agreed 
with  him  upon  the  key  of  "fa,"  which  he  understands.  Now  you 
start  on  "Bab,"  your  Indicator,  and  count  four  downward:  "Bab," 
bac,  bad,  "baf,"  and  find  that  "  Baf"  is  your  keyword  or  Designator, 
which  you  wrote  in  your  communication,  whether  it  be  letter  or 
telegram.  Any  one  trying  to  decipher  will  read:  "/  cannot  do  the 
thing  you  asked  of  me."  But  your  friend  turns  to  page  47  and  reads: 
"Baf",  bad,  bac,  "Bab": — Aha,  he  is  going  to  the  city  tomorrow,  and 
as  he  reads  it  he  smiles,  because  he  possesses  a  secret  which  no  one 
can  find  out.  Therefore 

7th.  First  write  your  Indicator  on  the  line,  then  place  your  Desig- 
nator on  the  key  line  for  the  message;  and 

8th.  In  deciphering  the  message  commence  with  the  Designator 
and  proceed  to  count  in  the  opposite  direction  to  the  writer  of  the 
message,  and  as  many  spaces  or  code-words  as  the  key  indicates. 

9th.  The  Complex  Keys  are  used  in  the  same  way,  though  Desig- 
nators are  placed  above  and  below  the  center  line  alternatively)  in  a 
zigzag  manner,  and  in  the  unlimited  variations  which  no  one  can 
fully  explain.  For  their  intelligent  use  requires  a  thorough  study 
and  knowledge  of  the  system;  and  then  they  will  appear  as  simple 
and  as  easy  to  manipulate  as  the  simplest  examples  in  algebraic 
equations. 

IN  CONCLUSION. 

Proceed  with  all  words  in  your  communication  in  the  same  manner 
as  now  indicated  in  the  above  example. 


14  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

Keys  For  Marconi's  Wireless  Telegraphy  System 

The  following  demonstration  shows  how  the  Scientific  Dial  System 
of  Keys  is  applicable  to  the  Marconi  wireless  telegraphy  system  and 
will  make  the  same  complete  and  applicable  for  all  kinds  of  tele- 
graphing, even  more  so  than  the  common  wire  telegraph  is  now, 
because  it  will  make  it  perfectly  secret  and  private  to  any  and  all 
parties  using  it. 

The  following  is  an  example: 

PEKIN,  November  8.— It  is  reported  that  Liang  Chi 
Chiao,  the  exiled  Chinese  editor,  a  most  influential  Chinese 
man  of  letters,  is  returning  to  the  capital  from  Japan  to 
direct  the  activities  of  the  reformers  and  to  assist  in  the 
formation  of  the  new  reformed  cabinet. 

The  above  telegram,  in  the  key  of  "Ja"  Progressive,  would  read 
as  follows: 

PEKIN,  Gaselaya.  It  is  reprehensible  that  Liang  Chi 
Chiao,  the  exonerate  Chinese  eel  a  motive  informant  Chinese 
man  of  lever,  is  revelation  to  the  capon  from  Japan  to  dirge  the 
acumen  of  the  refrain  and  to  assortment  in  the  fornication  of 
the  new  refrain  cache. 

In  the  key  transformation  of  the  above,  Webster's  Vestpocket 
Dictionary  has  been  used;  therefore,  in  the  deciphering,  the  same 
dictionary  has  to  be  used.  By  certain  improvements  and  the  making 
of  it  to  conform  to  the  system,  a  vocabulary  of  similar  kind  may  be 
utilized. 

The  Scientific  Dial  Key  System  may  be  used  with  the  Armsby,  or 
the  A.  B.  C.,  or  any  other  code  system,  and  made  absolutely  secret 
and  private  between  the  parties  or  persons  using  it. 


Brevity,  Simplicity,  Legibility 

In  catalogues  and  advertisements  of  machinery,  improvement  is 
invariably  claimed  by  showing  reduction  in  wearing  parts  and  sim- 
plified mechanism. 

Similar  claims  are  made  for  the  Scientific  Dial. 

In  the  small  space  is  contained  not  only  a  large  proportion  of  all 
languages  of  the  world,  and  a  system  of  universal  codes,  but  it  also 
affords  expression  in  figures  and  numerical  values,  in  condensed  and 
simplified  form,  less  liable  to  confuse  or  to  be  misunderstood  than 
any  other  system,  method  or  scheme  in  vogue. 

Take,  for  instance,  the  writing  of  dates. 

The  shortest  expression,  known  to  business,  for  March  first,  1911, 
is  3-1-11  (three-one-eleven — three  words). 

The  Scientific  Dial  needs  only  one  word,  "  Dabelana,"  and  no  ab- 
breviation is  used.  In  this  word  we  have  written  in  full  the  third 
month,  the  first  day  of  the  month,  and  the  mm  hundred  and  eleventh 
year.  /  f 


Introduction  15 

Suppose  we  want  to  announce  the  opening  of  the  Panama  Expo- 
sition in  San  Francisco,  April  first,  1915,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  fore- 
noon, and  we  have  at  least  seven  words  to  account  for. 

But  the  Scientific  Dial  needs  only  two  words,  "  Fabelasa  mazzo" 
In  these  two  words,  the  elements  are  not  only  intimated  but  they  are 
plainly  written  in  full. 

This  is  so  simple,  so  plain,  so  easily  understood  that  mistakes  are 
impossible. 

What  a  saving  in  time  and  energy !  And  what  has  here  been  shown 
as  a  matter  of  demonstration,  is  true  respecting  the  entire  Scientific 
Dial  System,  as  the  student  will  find  by  carefully  studying  the  fol- 
lowing lessons. 

One  more  example  may  be  given  here.  Suppose  you  want  your 
bank  to  send  you  $8,796.95,  and  you  send  a  telegram  to  that  effect. 
You  then  have  to  write  "eight  thousand  seven  hundred  ninety-six 
dollars  ninety-five  cents,"  and  you  have  to  account  for  ten  words. 

The  Scientific  Dial  proudly  disposes  of  the  matter  in  one  word, 
"Kejatuszy." 

Please  notice:  This  word  is  not  an  arbitrary  code  sign  or  cipher, 
but  it  is  a  regular  Scientific  Dial  Numeral,  which  anyone  can  write 
and  understand,  after  a  short  study  of  the  Scientific  Dial  and  the 
principles  involved. 

UNIVERSAL  LANGUAGE  ACQUIRED  IN  A  WEEK 

This  assertion  may  appear  preposterous,  but  an  honest  deter- 
mined trial  will  convince  any  reasonable  skeptic.  Now,  notice, 

1.  That  the  Scientific  Dial  Numerals  are  and  will  always  be  the 
same,  and  written  and  understood  alike  all  over  the  world,  just  as 
the  hours,  minutes,  seconds,  and  dates  of  the  Clock  Dial  are  the 
same,  and  understood  by  all  nations  alike,  without  explanation  or 
interpretation,  however  different  their  languages  may  be.     Take  the 
numeral  twenty  for  an  example:     the  Hebrew  says  esrim,  the  Greek 
says  eikosi,  the   Latin-Romans  say  viginti,   Germans  say  swanzig, 
Swedes  say  tjugu,  and  Danes  say  tyve,  but  with  the  Scientific  Dial 
all  nations  and  tribes  and  dialects  will  say  in  harmonious  chorus 
"Ya",  the  shortest,  neatest,  nicest,  and  more  effective  expression  for 
twenty. 

2.  That  the  Scientific  Dial  Primer  and  System  of  Codes  will  be 
translated  into  all  languages  of  the  world,  but  in  them  all  the  code- 
words will  remain  exactly  the  same,  though  the  inference  or  intended 
meaning,  idea,  intelligence  or  information  to  be  conveyed  or  trans- 
mitted is  translated.     Thus  will  be  revived  and  repeated  the  Pente- 
cost   marvel,   when   all   nationalities    heard    and    understood    the 
speaking  in  their  own  mother  tongue.     We  quote:     "Now  when 
this  was  noticed  abroad,  the  multitude  came  together,  and  were  con- 
founded,  because  that   every   man  heard  them   speak  in  his  own 
language.     And  they  were  all  amazed  and  marveled,  saying  one  to 
another,  Behold,  are  not  all  these  which  speak  Galilaeans?     And 
how  hear  we,  every  man  in  his  own  language,  wherein  we  are  born? 


16  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

Parthians,  and  Medes  and  Elamites,  and  the  dwellers  in  Meso- 
potamia, and  in  Judea,  and  Cappadocia,  in  Pontus  and  Asia,  in 
Phrygia  and  Pamphylia,  in  Egypt  and  in  the  parts  of  Libya  about 
Gyrene,  and  strangers  of  Rome,  Jews  and  proselytes,  Cretes  and 
Arabians,  we  hear  them  speak  in  our  tongues  the  wonderful  works  of 
God."— ACTS  2:6-11. 

By  writing  or  pointing  to  the  Scientific  Dial  Code- Word,  therefore, 
you  can  communicate  intelligently  with  any  nationality  on  our 
globe. 

You  can  travel  in  or  through  any  country,  find  the  way,  buy 
tickets,  give  orders  in  hotels  and  restaurants,  attend  to  toilet,  address 
the  barber,  arrange  your  baths,  and  do  anything  and  everything 
necessary  in  travel;  and  in  ordering  goods,  in  exchanging  money, 
and  in  carrying  on  general  business  transactions. 

And  all  this  knowledge  may  be  acquired  in  a  week! 

For  to  acquire  and  make  use  of  this  knowledge  is  only  to  under- 
stand the  Scientific  Dial  and  the  principles  involved. 

Universal  Language 

Attempts  have  been  made  to  invent  universal  languages  for  inter- 
national use.  First  came  "VOLAPUK,"  in  1879,  by  Johann  M. 
Schleyer,  but  his  invention  is  too  grotesque  to  become  popular. 
It  is  not  adapted  to  poetry  and  song. 

The  "ESPERANTO,"  invented  by  Dr.  Zamenhoff,  is,  as  its 
name  indicates,  more  hopeful,  as  it  contains  only  those  sounds  and 
roots  common  to  all  languages.  But  an  invented  language  is  and 
always  will  be  a  dead  language.  Business  men  have  not  the  time  to 
give  it  attention.  Some  college  students  may  become  enthusiastic 
about  it  for  a  while,  then  the  interest  diminishes,  fickles  and  dwindles 
away.  For  men  will  always  love,  cherish,  and  cling  to  their  mother 
tongue;  they  will  learn  and  maintain  only  living  languages. 

A  Substitute  for  Universal  Language 

But  a  substitute,  thoroughly  simple  and  practical,  contained  in 
a  small  compass,  easily  and  readily  acquired,  self-explaining  as  a 
common  clock  dial,  available  also  as  a  cipher  code  everywhere  in 
use,  will  be  accepted  and  become  universal  for  international  com- 
munication and  correspondence. 

Such  a  substitute  may  be  found  in  the  Scientific  Dial. 

Its  Use  in  Merchandising 

The  simple  way  that  wholesale  and  retail  prices  may  be  designated 
by  SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  NUMERALS  must  be  apparent  to  every 
merchant.  By  the  use  of  keys,  his  prices  will  always  remain  a  secret, 
while  his  retail  prices,  written  in  the  Natural  Key,  may  be  read 
and  understood  by  all.  The  simple  fact  that  these  keys  exist  and 
are  in  use,  will  ever  hold  outside,  uninformed  parties  in  a  state  of 
uncertainty.  And  a  change  of  keys  occasionally  will  always  preserve 
secrecy,  when  discharge  of  employes,  who  were  informed,  would 
make  that  necessary. 


Introduction  17 

In  Schools  and  Homes 

The  time  is  not  far  distant  when  the  Scientific  Dial,  printed  in 
large  artistic  chart  form,  will  find  a  place  in  every  school  and  home. 
It  will  become  as  familiar  as  the  old  clock  dial.  It  will  become  an 
object  of  observation  and  discussion  from  childhood  to  old  age. 
Its  wealth  of  usefulness  and  application  will  be  found  almost  in- 
exhaustible. 

A  Table  Substitute 

The  Scientific  Dial  may  become  a  substitute  for  all  the  various 
and  bewildering  tables  now  imposed  upon  children  in  arithmetics 
and  other  schoolbooks.  This  time-and-energy-wasting  process  of 
learning  tables  of  dry  measure,  tables  of  liquid  measure,  tables  of 
weights,  tables  of  long  measure  and  distances,  tables  of  values — all 
constructed  on  different  scales  and  based  on  different  base  units — 
is  all  wrong.  The  time  and  energy  thus  wasted  and  expended  could 
be  put  to  better  use.  One  table,  arranged  on  the  decimal  and 
centigrade  plan,  can  be  made  applicable  in  all  particulars,  conforming 
to  the  metric  scheme,  adopted  in  France  and  some  other  European 
countries.  This  French  scheme  has  one  objection,  though,  the 
conglomeration  in  names,  which  taxes  the  memory  and  compre- 
hension of  young  children  beyond  their  ability. 

The  Better  Way 

A  better  way  will  be  to  connect  these  tables  and  the  names  of 
their  gradation  with  objects  familiar  to  the  child  by  observation  at 
home. 

The  child  understands  the  old  clock. 

It  understands  that  the  year  is  divided  into  months,  the  months 
into  weeks  and  days,  the  days  into  hours,  the  hours  into  minutes, 
and  the  minutes  into  seconds. 

It  has  become  accustomed  to  distinguish,  to  measure  and  to 
estimate  the  difference  between  the  units  and  their  subdivisions 
on  the  old  clock  dial. 

The  Degree  the  Specific  Unit 

Let  the  degree  of  the  Scientific  Dial  be  considered  the  Specific 
Unit,  and  this  unit  be  the  pound  in  weight,  the  gallon  in  liquid 
measure,  and  bushel  in  dry  measure,  one  yard  or  metre  in  long 
measure,  and  a  dollar  in  the  measure  of  value.  Let  the  gradation 
into  minutes,  seconds  and  primers  take  the  place  of  hard  names  of 
all  subdivisions  and  be  applicable  to  all  these. 

The  Scientific  Dial  makes  the  discernment  of  class,  substance  and 
matter  under  consideration  easy  by  its  suffixes,  as,  for  example, 
"zy"  designates  dollars,  money;  "za,"  pounds,  etc.  Hence,  "mamzy" 
($10.10),  "mamza"  (10.10  Ibs). 

Leaving  off  the  first  consonant  or  whole  number,  we  have  fractions 
or  decimals,  as,  "atzy"  (16  cents),  "atzyz"  (16  per  cent),  "atza" 


18  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

It  requires  no  great  genius  to  see  the  simplicity  and  ready  appli- 
cation of  this  system;  and  best  of  all  it  is  so  easy  to  learn  and  to 
understand  by  children.  For  it  follows  in  direct  line  with  obser- 
vations from  infancy  at  home,  whereupon  will  follow  natural  expan- 
sion and  development. 

Having  become  familiar  with  the  dial  of  the  clock,  and  observing 
the  Scientific  Dial  as  a  chart  on  the  wall  and  among  its  toys,  the 
child's  natural  inquisitiveness  and  curiosity  will  call  out  the  meaning 
and  purpose,  as  it  will  not  be  contented  until  it  has  been  told  what 
this,  that  and  the  other  circle,  division,  letter,  and  figure  stands  for. 

FORMULA 

100  Primers  make  One  Second. 
100  Seconds  make  One  Minute. 
100  Minutes  make  One  Degree. 
100  Degrees  make  One  Standard. 
20  Standards  make  One  Portico. 
25  Porticos  make  One  Arcade. 
20  Arcades  make  One  Base. 
20  Bases  make  One  Grand  Division. 
5  Grand  Divisions  make  One  Dial. 

SECONDARY    NUMERICAL  VALUES 

z  equals  0  (zero) 
a  aza       "       100 
e  eza       "       1,000 
i   iza        "       10,000 
o  oza       "       100,000 
u  uza       "       1,000,000 

Making  the  degree  the  specific  unit,  we  find  that  the  Dial  contains 
100,000,000 — one  hundred  million — such  specific  units,  each  unit 
divisible  into  hundredths,  ten  thousandths,  and  a  million  parts. 
The  Scientific  Dial  is  itself  a  grand  unit,  comprising  as  it  does  one 
hundred  million  specific  units,  each  specific  unit  divisible  into  one 
million  parts. 


Introduction  19 

SOUNDS  OF  LETTERS  AND  PRONUNCIATION  OF  WORDS 

1.     VOWELS 
a,  as  in  far,  calm,  father. 

e,  as  in  bed,  met  (generally  short)  . 

i,  as  in  spin,  ability  (generally  short). 

0,  as  in  note,  old,  soul. 
u,  as  in  pure,  few,  dew. 

The  following  vowels  have  been  adopted  to  designate  the  intended 
meaning  of  a  numeral,  principally  used  as  suffixes  or  endings  of  nu- 
merals and  preceded  by  "z,"  and  when  so  used  the  accent  or  stress  of 
the  voice  always  resting  on  the  last  designating  vowel,  as,  "mapzy'," 
$10.12;  "mapza',"  10.12  Ibs.,  and  "mapzaz',"  10.12  miles;  "mapzo'," 
10.12  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  "mapzozzu'/'  10.12  o'clock  P.  M.,  time 
proposed  accepted. 

y,  as  in  they,  prey. 

a,  as  in  road,  toad,  slow  (long). 

a,  as  in  fate,  hate,  lake  (long). 
6,  as  in  sir,  fir,  her,  mirth. 

ii,  as  in  feel,  steel,  deem  (long) . 

2.     CONSONANTS 

b,  as  in  ebb,  bell,  beat,  ebony. 

c,  as  "sh,"  in  shade,  ash,  fish. 

d,  as  in  date,  lad,  had,  day. 

f,  as  in  fad,  after,  father,  rafter. 

g,  always  hard,  as  in  go,  give,  aggregate,  anger. 
h,  as  in  hat,  have,  ah,  aha. 

j,  as  "dj"  in  jam,  jack,  joint,  adjust,  eject. 
k,  always  hard,  as  in  kettle,  keg,  keep,  kick. 

1,  as  in  lamb,  elad,  kiln,  film. 
m,  as  in  man,  mam,  mammal. 

n,  as  in  not,  neat,  fan,  funny. 
p,  as  in  pat,  put,  up,  upper. 
q,  as  "kiu"  in  quad,  quail,  pique. 
r,  as  in  rate,  arm,  far,  through,  from,  form, 
s,  as  in  sat,  us,  first,  grass. 
t,  as  in  hat,  tat,  trust,  cant, 
v,  as  in  vane,  varnish,  receive,  leave, 
w,  as  in  water,  with,  now,  thou. 
x,  as  "ch"  in  cheap,  which,  chip,  stretch, 
y,  soft  and  pliable,  as  in  yield,  year,  toy. 
z,  as  "dsee"  in  zebra,  hazel,  zone. 

Scientific  Dial  numeral  and  code-words  have  a  syllable  for  each 
vowel. 


The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

LESSON  I 

DESCRIPTION 

The  Scientific  Dial  is  a  dial  resembling  the  dial  of  a  watch  or  clock 
which  indicates  seconds,  minutes,  hours,  dates  of  the  month,  etc. 

The  Scientific  Dial  is  divided  into  divisions  and  subdivisions, 
each  one  of  which  has  a  specific  purpose  and  significance,  easily 
recognized,  easily  comprehended,  and  easily  fixed  in  the  memory. 

1.  We  observe  that  the  Dial  presents  nine  circular  rings  from 
the  center  to  the  circumference. 

2.  We  also  notice  five  lines  radiating  from  a  common  point  in 
the  center  to  the  circumference. 

3.  These  five  lines,  radiating  from  the  center  to  the  circumference, 
divide  the  Dial  into  five  equal  parts.     Now  let  us  fix  this  well  in  our 
minds,  and  call  these  divisions  the  "  Grand  Divisions,"  because  they 
are  the  largest  of  all  the  divisions  on  the  Dial,  and  each  one  is  divided 
into  a  number  of  smaller  divisions,  which  we  will  call  Subdivisions. 

4.  Now  the  Five  Grand  Divisions  and  the  Subdivisions,  many 
as  they  are,  all  and  every  one  of  them — each  one  for  itself  and  all  in 
relationship  and  in  combination  with  one  another — have  a  special 
significance  and  meaning,  respecting  weights  and  measures,  meas- 
uring quantity,  measuring  quality,  measuring  distance,  measuring 
time,  and  measuring  value. 

The  Scientific  Dial  also  contains  elements  of  universal  language, 
new  base  for  mathematical  calculations,  and  universal  code. 

LESSON  II 

NUMERICAL  VALUES 

Contained  in  the  Five  Radial  Grand  Divisions  and  in  the  second 
ring  from  the  circumference,  and  controlled  by  a  vowel  letter  in 
each  Grand  Division. 

1.  Each  Grand  Division  contains  twenty  Subdivisions,  in  the 
second  ring  from  the  circumference,  and  in  each  of  these  Subdivisions 
we  find  a  consonant  letter,  from  "b"  to  "y,"  the  "y"  considered  and 
used  as  a  consonant. 

NOTE.  The  use  of  "y"  as  a  vowel,  in  conjunction  with  the  letter 
"z,"  will  be  explained  and  demonstrated  in  another  chapter. 

2.  The  vowels,  a,  e,  i,  o,  u,  control  the  Grand  Divisions,  each  in 
its  order;   "a,"  the   first  vowel,  controls  the  First  Grand  Division, 
from  "ba"  to  "ya"  (1  to  20);  "e"  controls  the  Second  Grand  Division, 
from  "be"  to  "ye"  (21  to  40);  "i"  controls  the  Third  Grand  Division, 
from  "bi"  to  "yi"  (41  to  60);  "o"  controls  the  Fourth  Grand  Di- 
vision, from  "bo"  to  "yo"  (61  to  80);  "u"  controls  the  Fifth  Grand 
Division,  from  "bu"  to  "yu"  (81  to  100). 


Numerical  Values 


21 


EXAMPLES 

Rule   1.     Scientific   Dial   words,   ending  in   a   vowel,   are   whole 
numbers. 


Consonant  Values 


b  equals 

c 

d 

f 

g    * 
h 

j 

k 


m 
n 
P 

q 

r 

s 
t 

V 

w 

X 

y 


i 

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 

10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 


GRAND  DIVISION  VALUES 

First    Grand    Di-           Second  Grand  Di- 
vision, controlled             vision,  controlled 
by  "a"                              by  "e" 

ba   equals      1 
ca       "           2 

be  equah 
ce       " 

r     21 
22 

da       " 

3 

de 

u 

23 

fa       " 

4 

fe 

u 

24 

ga       « 
ha      " 

5 
6 

ge 
he 

u 

25 
26 

(t 

ka      " 

7 
8 

je 
ke 

u 
tl 

27 
28 

la 

9 

le 

u 

29 

ma     " 

10 

me 

It 

30 

na      " 

11 

ne 

" 

31 

pa      « 
qa       « 
ra 

12 
.   13 
14 

pe 
qe 
re 

11 
u 

32 
33 
34 

sa 

15 

se 

11 

35 

ta 

16 

te 

11 

36 

va      " 

17 

ve 

u 

37 

wa      " 

18 

we 

u 

38 

xa      " 

19 

xe 

It 

39 

ya     " 

20 

ye 

tl 

40 

Third  Grand  Di- 
vision, controlled 
by  "i" 

bi   equals    41 


ci 
di 
fi 

gi 
hi 

£ 

li 

mi 

ni 

PI 

qi 

ri 

si 

ti 

vi 

wi 

xi 


42 
43 
44 
45 
46 
47 
48 
49 
50 
51 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 


Fourth  Grand  Division,  controlled  by  "o" 


Fifth  Grand  Division,  controlled  by  "u' 


bo  equals    61         no  equals    71         bu  equals    81         nu  equals    91 


CO 

do 
fo 
go 
ho 

jo 
ko 
lo 
mo 


62 
63 
64 
65 
66 
67 
68 
69 
70 


po 

qo 

ro 

so 

to 

vo 

wo 

xo 


72 
73 
74 
75 

76 

77 
78 
79 
80 


cu 
du 
fu 
gu 
hu 

r 

ku 

lu 

mu 


82 
83 
84 
85 
86 
87 
88 
89 
90 


pu 

qu 

ru 

su 

tu 

vu 

wu 

xu 


92 
93 
94 
95 
96 
97 
98 
99 
100 


OBSERVE:  The  value  of  common  figures  is  changed  by  changing 
the  right-hand  figures,  the  left-hand  figures  remaining  unchanged 
between  the  tens;  as,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  etc. 

Scientific  Dial  numerals  retain  their  right-hand  figures  from  b  to 
y  (1  to  20),  changing  instead  their  left-hand  figures;  as,  ma,  na,  pa, 
qa,  ra,  sa,  etc.  Remembering  that  b=l  after  y,  and  n=l  after  m, 
will  aid  in  comprehending  Scientific  Dial  numerals;  as,  ba=  1,  ma=  10, 
and  na=ll,  ya  =  23,  and  be  =  21;  me  =  30,  and  ne  =  31,  ye  =  40,  and 
bi  =  41;  mi  =  50,  and  ni  =  51;  yi  =  60,  and  bo  =  61;  mo  =  70,  and 
no  =  71;  yo  =  80,  and  bu  =  81;  mu  =  90;  and  nu  =  91;  yu  =  100. 


22  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

EXERCISES 

Translate  the  following  Scientific  Dial  words  into  common  figures: 
Ba,  ca,  da,  fa,  ga,  ha,  ja,  ka,  la,  ma,  na,  pa,  qa,  ra,  sa,  ta,  va, 
wa,  xa,  ya;  be,  ce,  de,  fe,  ge,  he,  je,  ke,  le,  me,  ne,  pe,  qe,  re,  se,  te, 
ve,  we,  xe,  ye;  bi,  ci,  di,  fi,  gi,  hi,  ji,  ki,  li,  mi,  ni,  pi,  qi,  ri,  si,  ti,  vi, 
wi,  xi,  yi;  bo,  co,  do,  fo,  go,  ho,  jo,  ko,  lo,  mo,  no,  po,  qo,  ro,  so,  to, 
vo,  wo,  xo,  yo;  bu,  cu,  du,  lu,  mu,  nu;  pu,  qu,  su,  vu,  yu. 

Translate  the  following  figures  and  numbers  into  Scientific  Dial 
words : 

1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20, 
21,  22,  23,  24,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  30,  31,  32,  33,  34,  35,  36,  37,  38,  39, 
40,  41,  42,  43,  44,  45,  46,  47,  48,  49,  50,  51,  52,  53,  54,  55,  56,  57,  58, 
59,  60,  61,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67,  68,  69,  70,  71,  72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  77, 
78,  79,  80,  81,  82,  83,  84,  85,  86,  87,  88,  89,  90,  91,  92,  93,  94,  95,  96, 
97,  98,  99,  100. 


LESSON  III 

FRACTIONS  AND  DECIMALS 

Rule  2.     Monosyllable  Scientific  Dial  words  ending  in  a  consonant 
are  decimals. 

EXAMPLES 


DECIMALS 

ab 

=  .01 

eb 

=  .21 

ib 

=  .41 

ob 

= 

.61 

ub 

= 

.81 

ac 

=  .02 

ec 

=  .22 

ic 

=  .42 

oc 

= 

.62 

uc 

= 

.82 

ad 

=  .03 

ed 

=  .23 

id 

=  .43 

od 

= 

.63 

ud 

= 

.83 

af 

=  .04 

ef 

=  .24 

if 

=  .44 

of 

= 

.64 

uf 

= 

.84 

ag 

=  .05 

eg 

=  .25 

ig 

=  .45 

og 

= 

.65 

ug 

= 

.85 

ah 

=  .06 

eh 

=  .26 

ih 

=  .46 

oh 

= 

.66 

uh 

= 

.86 

ak 

=  .07 

=  .08 

1 
ek 

=  .27 
=  .28 

ij 
ik 

=  .47 

=  .48 

ok 

= 

.67 
.68 

uk 

= 

.87 
.88 

al 

=  .09 

el 

=  .29 

il 

=  .49 

ol 

= 

.69 

ul 

= 

.89 

am 

=  .10 

em 

=  .30 

im 

=  .50 

om 

= 

.70 

um 

= 

.90 

an 

=  .11 

en 

=  .31 

in 

=  .51 

on 

= 

.71 

un 

= 

.91 

ap 

=  .12 

ep 

=  .32 

ip 

=  .52 

op 

= 

.72 

up 

= 

.92 

aq 

=  .13 

eq 

=  .33 

iq 

=  .53 

oq 

= 

.73 

uq 

= 

.93 

ar 

=  .14 

er 

=  .34 

ir 

=  .54 

or 

= 

.74 

ur 

= 

.94 

as 

=  .15 

es 

=  .35 

is 

=  .55 

OS 

= 

.75 

us 

== 

.95 

at 

=  .16 

et 

=  .36 

it 

=  .56 

ot 

= 

.76 

ut 

= 

.96 

av 

=  .17 

ev 

=  .37 

iv 

=  .57 

ov 

= 

.77 

uv 

= 

.97 

aw 

=  .18 

ew 

=  .38 

iw 

=  .58 

ow 

= 

.78 

uw 

= 

.98 

ax 

=  .19 

ex 

=  .39 

ix 

=  .59 

ox 

= 

.79 

ux 

= 

.99 

ay 

=  .20 

ey 

=  .40 

iy 

=  .60 

oy 

= 

.80 

uy 

=. 

.100 

Fractions  and  Decimals  23 

Translate  the  following  exercises: 

Ab,  ac,  ad,  af,  ag,  ah,  aj,  ak,  al,  am,  an,  ap,  aq,  ar,  as,  at,  av, 
aw,  ax,  ay;  eb,  ec,  ed,  ef,  eg,  eh,  ej,  ek,  el,  em,  en,  ep,  eq,  er,  es,  et, 
ev,  ew,  ex,  ey;  ib,  ic,  id,  if,  ig,  in,  ij,  ik,  il,  im,  in,  ip,  iq,  ir,  is,  it,  iv, 
iw,  ix,  iy;  ob,  oc,  od,  of,  og,  oh,  oj,  ok,  ol,  om,  on,  op,  oq,  or,  os, 
ot,  ov,  ow,  ox,  oy;  ub,  uc,  ud,  uf,  ug,  uh,  uj,  uk,  ul,  um,  un,  up,  uq, 
ur,  us,  ut,  uv,  uw,  ux,  uy. 

.01,  .02,  .03,  .04,  .05,  .06,  .07,  .08,  .09,  .10,  .11,  .12,  .13,  .14,  .15, 

.16,  .17,  .18,  .19,  .20,  .21,  .22,  .23,  .24,  .25,  .26,  .27,  .28,  .29,  .30, 

.31,  .32,  .33,  .34,  .35,  .36,  .37,  .38,  .39,  .40,  .41,  .42,  .43,  .44,  .45, 

.46,  .47,  .48,  .49,  .50,  .51,  .52,  .53,  .54,  .55,  .56,  .57,  .58,  .59,  .60, 

.61,  .62,  .63,  .64,  .65,  .66,  .67,  .68,  .69,  .70,  .71,  .72,  .73,  .74,  .75, 

.76,  .77,  .78,  .79,  .80,  .81,  .82,  .83,  .84,  .85,  .86,  .87,  .88,  .89,  .90, 

.91,  .92,  .93,  .94,  .95,  .96,  .97,  .98,  .99,  .100. 


LESSON  IV 

COMBINING  WHOLE  NUMBERS  WITH  DECIMALS 

NOTE.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  Scientific  Dial  whole  number 
words  end  in  a  vowel,  and  Scientific  Dial  decimal  words  end  in  a 
consonant,  the  two  words  are  written  together  or  combined  into  one 
word  and  pronounced  as  one  word,  each  part  being  easily  recognized 
and  distinguished. 

Rule  3.  When  both  the  whole  number  and  the  fraction  or  decimal 
belong  to  the  same  Grand  Division,  one  vowel  is  dropped. 

EXAMPLES 


Ba=l;  bab  =  1.01;  ca  =  2;  cab  =  2.01;  da  =  3;  dad  =  3.03;  la  =  9; 
lam  =  9.10;  ma=10;  mam  =  10.10;  man=  10.11;  map  =  10.12;  pam  = 
12.10;  max=10.19;  mat  =  10.16;  tam=16.10;  bat  =  1.16;  has  =  6.15; 
tax=  16.19;  lap  =  9.12;  pal  =  12.09;  be  =  21;  bet  =  21.36;  beg  =  21.25; 
hem  =  26.30;  pet  =  32.36;  bi  =  41;  bit  =  41.56;  lit  =  49.56;  his  =  46.55; 
bid  =  41.43;  bo  =  61;  bot  =  61.76;  cot  =  62.76;  rot  =  74.76;  tot  =  76.76; 
not  =  71.76;  rob  =  74.61;  rod  =  74.63;  bu  =  81;  but  =  81.96;  rut  =  94.96; 
hut  =  86.96;  lul  =  89.89;  lux  =  89.99;  sup  =  95.92;  cup  =  82.92. 

Rule  4.  When  the  whole  number  belongs  to  one  Grand  Division 
and  the  decimal  to  another,  both  vowels  are  retained. 

EXAMPLES 

Baem  =  1.30;  baeb  =  1.21;  meam  =  30.10;  doet  =  63.36;  suit  =  95.56; 
goes  =  65.  35;  seog  =  35.65. 

EXERCISES 

Bab,  cat,  hat,  fat,  mat,  mam,  man,  men,  ten,  hen,  ken,  pet,  net, 
him,  sin,  dim,  mit,  lit,  bit,  his,  fit,  tit,  wit,  vim,  not,  cot,  tot,  hot, 
dot,  ton,  hog,  pig,  rip,  kid,  rib,  but,  sup,  rut,  hut,  fun,  cut. 

Baeb,  beab,  baem,  baen,  mean,  maem,  doet,  suit,  gait,  goet,  goes, 
bail,  pail,  hail,  fail,  hiat,  bat,  bait,  baum. 

1.30;  3.50;  50.10;  45.25;  20.10;  10.12;  10.14;  18.10;  5.60;  9.99. 


24  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

LESSON  V 

Scientific  Dial  words,  containing  more  than  one  consonant  to  the 
Grand  Division  vowel,  in  whole  numbers  or  in  decimals  or  in  both. 

Rule  5.  The  value  of  a  consonant  nearest  to  the  Grand  Division 
vowel,  which  in  a  Scientific  Dial  numeral  word  is  the  last  vowel 
to  the  right,  the  first  place  consonant  to  the  left  or  right — whole 
number  or  decimal — is  controlled  by  the  Grand  Division  vowel,  as, 
ba=l,  bab  =  1.01,  be  =  21,  beb  =  21.21,  bi  =  41,  bib  =  41.41;  bo  =  61, 
bob  =  61.61;  bu  =  81,  bub  =  81.81. 

Rule  6.  Consonants  in  Scientific  Dial  numeral  words,  taking 
second,  third,  fourth,  or  any  other  position  to  the  left  or  right  of 
the  Grand  Division  vowel,  maintain  their  First  Grand  Division 
values,  as,  la  =  9,  lat  =  9.16,  slat  =  159.16,  slats- 159.1615;  la  =  9, 
lan  =  9.11,  bla=19,  blan=  19.11,  blank=  19.118,  blanks  =  19. 11815. 

Ra=14,  ran=  14.11,  cra  =  214,  cran  =  214.11,  crank  =  214.118, 
cranks  =  214.11815. 

Ra=14,  tra=1614,  traw=  1614.18,  straws  =  151614.1815. 

Ri  =  54,  rin  =  54.51,  trin=  1654.51,  tring=  1654.515,  string  = 
151654.515,  strings  =  151654.51515. 

Po  =  72,  por  =  72.74,  spor=  1572.74;  sports  =  1572.741615. 

Means  =  30.1115;  dreams  =  334. 1015;  streams  =  151634.1015. 

Should  =  1566.893;  could  =  62.893;  brief  =154.24;  chief  =  246.24; 
hour  =  66. 94. 

EXERCISES 

Slash,  clash,  splash,  feast,  stretch,  thresh,  thought,  fought,  taught, 
laugh,  blunt,  stunt,  till,  still,  spill,  spell,  grunt,  front,  smut,  smart, 
start,  dwells,  swells,  swamps,  strength,  field,  shield,  steam,  cream, 
screams,  watch,  straight. 


LESSON  VI 

^  Rule  7.     Vowels  used  outside  of  the  Grand  Divisions  have  specific 
values  as  follows: 

a  =100 

e=l,000 

1=10,000 

0  =  100,000 

u=  1,000,000 

z  =  0 

EXAMPLES 

Aza=100,  aba=101,  abab  =  101.01,  abe=121,  dalem  =  329.30, 
abo  =  161,  abob  =  161.61,  habos  =  661.75. 

Ama=110,  dama  =  310,  mama=1010,  ema  =  1010,  papa=1212, 
ecapa=1212. 

Alas=  109.15,  elas  =  1009.15,  ilas  =  10,009. 15,  olas  =  100,009.15, 
ulas  =  1,000,009.15;  xana=1911,  elana=1911,  belana=1911. 


Vowels  Outside  Grand  Divisions  25 

NOTICE.  Xana  reads  nineteen  hundred  eleven;  elana  reads  a  thou- 
sand nine  hundred  eleven,  and  belana  reads  one  thousand  one  hundred 
and  eleven.  This  same  number  expressed  in  three  ways  indicates 
the  wealth  and  flexibility  of  Scientific  Dial  expression;  each  one  is 
perfectly  legible  and  conveys  but  one  meaning. 

E  =  1000,  eza=1000,  deza  =  3000;  deaza  =  3100,  felaput  =  4992.96, 
heating^ 6156.515;  cheating- 26,156.515;  pleading- 129,143.515. 

1=10,000,  iza- 10,000;  ciza  =  20,000;  diza  =  30,000;  cieza  =  21,000; 
ciebama  =  21,110;  diecapa= 31,212;  hifelase  =  64,935;  licfjawu  = 
94,798. 

0- 100,000;  oman  =  100,010.11;  joint=67.5116;  joiner=710,031. 34; 
olikehapost  =  198,672.7516;  loijapul  =  910,792.89. 

U  =  1,000,000;  uza=  1,000,000;  suza=  15,000,000;  sukotelapu  = 
15,816,992;  guitar -5,010,016. 14;  grunter  =  514,001, 136.34. 

Rule  8.  Vowels  preceding  z  in  a  polysyllable  word  retain  their 
Grand  Division  values  and  control,  as,  dazuzu  =  3, 000,000;  dezuzu  = 
23,000,000;  mezuloma  =  30,900,010 ;  mezulonta  =  30,901, 116;  bizuza  = 
41,000,000;  bozuza= 61,000,000;  muzulpato  =  90,091,276. 

EXAMPLES 

Xama,  xame,  elax,  relax,  petals,  metals,  most,  post,  toast,  elama, 
belana,  lelama,  jacapa,  feago,  goafe,  amo,  lamo,  helamo,  helamu, 
hilamus,  amat,  make,  take,  flake,  flakes,  snake,  sneak,  thief,  work, 
sword,  pozelama,  pozulama,  puzulapon,  lojedasi. 

Rule  9.  "Y,"  used  as  a  vowel  and  preceded  by  "z"  (zy),  desig- 
nates $  and  signifies  money;  as,  "gamzy"  equals  $5.10,  "patzy" 
equals  $12.16,  "sawzy"  equals  $15.18,  "hayzy"  equals  $6.23. 

Rule  10.  All  the  vowels,  ending  Scientific  Dial  numerals,  and 
preceded  by  some  consonant  and  "z"  (Iz,  mz,  tz,  pz,  etc.),  have  no 
numerical  values,  but  designate  the  import,  meaning  or  intended 
purpose  or  object  of  the  numeral  itself;  as,  "lapza"  =  9.12  pounds, 
"topzy"=  $76.72,  "trialzaz"  =  1654.09  miles. 

Rule  11.  In  a  Scientific  Dial  numeral  word,  ending  in  a  vowel, 
the  "z"  is  doubled  to  distinguish  between  "aza,"  100,  and  "bazza," 
one  pound;  "daza,"  300,  and  "dazza,"  3  pounds;  "dazazza,"  300 
pounds;  "dezza,"  23  pounds;  "dezazza,"  3,000  pounds;  "dezazzaz," 
3,000  miles;  "delepzaz,"  3,029.32  miles;  "dealeimzaz,"  3,129.50  miles; 
"helamzaz,"  6,009.10  tons;  "helamazzy,"  $6,910.00. 


26  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

MEANING  OF  SUFFIXES 

zy  is  money.  zoz  is  gross. 

zyz  is  percentum.  za  is  yard,  meter. 

za  is  Ibs.,  pounds.  zaz  is  miles. 

zaz  is  tons.  za  is  days. 
zazza  is  cental,  one  hundredweight,  zaz  is  months. 

ze  is  gallons,  liquid  measure.  zo  is  time;  hour  in  the  forenoon. 

zez  is  barrels,  liquid  measure.  zoz  is  time;  hour  in  the  afternoon. 

zi  is  gallon,  dry  measure.  zu  is  accepted. 

ziz  is  bushel,  dry  measure.  zuz  is  rejected. 

zo  is  dozen.  ii  is  spacer, 

a   is   the    division   line   between  numerator   and    denominator   in 
fractions,  as, 


LESSON  VII 

ANALYTICAL  EXERCISES 

TEACHER:  Miss  Ruth,  step  to  the  blackboard  and  write  the 
Scientific  Dial  numeral  word  "lam." 

TEACHER:  Good.  To  which  Grand  Division  does  this  word  be- 
long? 

RUTH:     To  the  First  Grand  Division. 

TEACHER:     Why? 

RUTH:     Because  the  vowel  "a"  controls  the  First  Grand  Division. 

TEACHER:  Correct.  What  kind  of  numeral  is  "lam" — whole 
number,  fraction,  or  mixed  number? 

RUTH:  It  is  a  mixed  number,  consisting  of  a  whole  number  and 
a  fraction. 

TEACHER:     What  part  of  the  word  constitutes  the  whole  number? 

RUTH:     "La"  equals  9  and  is  a  whole  number. 

TEACHER:     Recite  the  rule. 

RUTH:  Scientific  Dial  Numeral  words  ending  in  a  vowel  are 
whole  numbers.  Rule  1. 

TEACHER:     What  part  of  the  word  constitutes  the  fraction? 

RUTH:     "am"  equals  TxoV  or  -10- 

TEACHER:     Recite  the  rule. 

RUTH  :  Monosyllable  Scientific  Dial  words  ending  in  a  consonant 
(except  z)  are  fractions  or  decimals. 

TEACHER:  Correct.  Now  translate  the  Scientific  Dial  word 
"lam"  into  common  figures. 

RUTH:     9TV°o,  or  9.10. 

TEACHER:  "lam,"  then,  designates  the  value  9.10,  but  the  value 
of  what? 

RUTH:     Of  anything;  the  particular  thing  not  designated. 

TEACHER:  Can  this  numeral  word  "lam"  be  written  so  as  to 
designate  money? 


Analytical  Exercises  27 

RUTH:     Yes,  sir — by  suffixing  zy — "lamzy,"  designating  $9.10. 

TEACHER:     Very  good.     How  would  you  designate  pounds? 

RUTH:     By  suffixing  "za" — lamza,  which  equals  9.10  pounds. 

TEACHER:     Correct.     Now  recite  the  rule,  please. 

RUTH:  All  the  vowels,  ending  a  Scientific  Dial  numeral  word, 
and  preceded  by  a  consonant  and  "z,"  as  Iz,  mz,  nz,  pz,  sz,  tz,  etc., 
or  "zz,"  have  no  numeral  values,  but  designate,  instead,  the  import, 
meaning,  and  intended  purpose  of  the  numeral  itself. 

TEACHER:  Very  good.  Now  we  will  ask  Roy  to  come  to  the 
board  and  see  what  he  can  do.  Roy,  write  the  numerals  pat,  pet, 
pit,  pot,  put,  and  analyze  them  in  their  order. 

ROY:  "pat"  belongs  to  the  First  Grand  Division,  because  the 
controlling  vowel  is  "a,"  and  it  is  a  mixed  number,  equal  to  12.16; 
"pet"  belongs  to  the  Second  Grand  Division,  because  the  controlling 
vowel  is  "e,"  and  it  is  a  mixed  number,  equal  to  32.36;  "pit"  is  a 
Third  Grand  Division  word,  a  mixed  number,  equal  to  52.56;  "pot" 
is  a  Fourth  Grand  Division  word,  a  mixed  number,  equal  to  72.76; 
"put"  is  a  Fifth  Grand  Division  word,  a  mixed  number,  equal  to 
92.96. 

TEACHER:  Very  good.  Now  translate  into  Scientific  Dial  nu- 
merals the  following:  $8.16,  and  analyze. 

ROY:  8  equals  "ka,"  .16  equals  "at,"  and  $  is  designated  by  "zy," 
hence,  8.16  equals  "kat,"  and  $8.16  equals  "katzy." 

TEACHER:  Good.  But  you  dropped  one  vowel,  "ka"  is  8,  and 
"at"  is  .16,  which  combined  would  be  "kaat";  but  in  your  combi- 
nation you  write  the  controlling  vowel  "a"  only  once;  how  is  that? 

ROY:  It  conforms  to  Rule  3 — "When  both  the  whole  number 
and  the  fraction  or  decimal  belong  to  the  same  Grand  Division,  one 
vowel  is  dropped." 

TEACHER:     Very  good.     Translate  and  analyze  61T1Q60-  miles. 

ROY:  61  equals  "bo,"  "TV6o"  equals  "at,"  and  the  designation  for 
miles  is  "zaz,"  hence,  combined,  "boatzaz"  equals  61.16  miles. 

TEACHER:     Good:     Now  translate  and  analyze  26T5o4g-  tons. 

ROY:  26  equals  "he,"  "T50V'  equals  "ir,"  and  zaz  designates  tons. 
Hence,  "heirzaz"  equals  23.54  tons. 

TEACHER:  That's  correct.  Now  translate  and  analyze  9  o'clock 
P.  M. 

ROY:  9  equals  "la,"  and  "zoz"  designates  time  in  the  afternoon; 
"lazoz,"  then,  equals  9  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  or  evening. 

TEACHER:  Class,  is  that  right?  (Several  hands  up).  Nelly,  you 
may  inform  Roy  and  the  class  what  you  think  is  wrong  about  it. 

NELLY:     "z"  should  be  doubled  between  the  vowels. 

TEACHER:     How  so? 

NELLY:  Because  in  numeral  words  ending  in  a  vowel,  the  "z"  is 
doubled  to  distinguish  between  "aza,"  100,  "bazza,"  one  pound, 
"daza,"  300,  and  "dazazza,"  300  pounds. 

TEACHER:     Very  good.     Now  complete  your  analysis,  Roy. 

ROY:  The  Scientific  Dial  word  should  then  be  written,  "lazzoz," 
to  designate  9  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  or  evening,  as  this  would  be. 

TEACHER:     Correct.     Now  translate  10:45  o'clock  A.  M. 


28  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

ROY:  10  equals  "ma,"  :45  equals  "ig,"  and  A.  M.  is  designated 
by  "zo";  hence  "maigzo"  is  equivalent  to  10:45  A.  M. 

TEACHER:  Good.  But  suppose  that  you  desired  to  convey  the 
idea  that  that  time  is  proposed  to  someone  as  acceptable  to  you. 
How  would  you  write? 

ROY:  "zu"  indicates  acceptable,  acceptance,  etc.;  hence  "maig- 
zozu"  would  convey  the  idea  that  10:45  in  the  forenoon  is  acceptable 
to  me. 

TEACHER:  If  the  time  designated  were  in  the  afternoon  and 
rejected,  what  would  be  the  form  of  your  Scientific  Dial  word? 

ROY:  I  would  add  "zuz"  and  double  the  "z"  and  write  "maig- 
zozzuz." 

TEACHER:     Analyze. 

ROY:  "ma"  equals  10,  "ig"  equals  45,  "zoz"  designates  time  in 
the  afternoon,  and  "zuz"  means  not  acceptable,  or  rejected;  hence, 
"maigzozzuz"  means  that  your  time  at  10:45  in  the  afternoon  is  not 
accepted. 

TEACHER:  Good  for  Roy;  that's  correct.  And  it  is  a  short,  per- 
fectly legible  way  of  expressing  a  whole  sentence  if  telegraphe  1  in 
the  usual  way,  in  which  each  figure  counts  for  a  word.  And  this 
form  may  be  used  with  equal  simplicity  and  legibility  in  all  combi- 
nations of  designated  values,  numbers  or  quantities  in  measure  or 
distance.  Now  Roy,  Ruth,  Nelly,  Frank,  Maud,  and  Joe  may  go  to 
the  blackboard,  and  each  one  is  to  write  a  telegram,  expressing  the 
shortest  way  to  convey  the  same  meaning  as  the  Scientific  Dial 
numeral  word  "maigzozzuz." 

THE  TELEGRAMS 

MAUD:     Ten  forty-five,  evening,  rejected.     (5  words) 
FRANK:     Ten  forty-five  in  evening,  not  accepted.     (7  words) 
JOE:     Rejecting  ten  forty-five  in  evening.     (6  words) 
RUTH:     Ten  forty-five,  evening,  unacceptable.     (5  words) 
NELLY:     Time  proposed  rejected.     (3  words) 
ROY:     Ten  forty-five,  evening,  impossible.     (5  words) 
TEACHER:     Now  let  us  look  at  these  six  telegrams.     Which  one  is 
the  shortest? 

NELLY:     Mine  is  only  three  words. 

ROY:  But  hers  is  not  a  translation  of  the  Scientific  Dial  word 
"maigzozzuz." 

TEACHER:     You  may  give  your  reason  for  your  translation,  Nelly. 
NELLY:     The  Scientific  Dial  word  "maigzozzuz"  seems  to  indicate 
the  proposal  of  that  time  by  someone.     Therefore,  instead  of  repeat- 
ing the  time,  which  requires  four  words,  the  word  proposed  refers  to 
the  same  thing,  and  saves  three  words. 

TEACHER:  Your  reasoning  is  excellent,  and  indicates  indepen- 
dence of  mind  and  logical  thinking. 

ROY:  That's  the  idea  I  intended  to  convey  by  supplementing  the 
word  "impossible"  for  "rejected."  For  my  substitute  gives  reason 
for  using  the  suffix  "zuz,"  or  unacceptance  of  the  proffered  time  by 
the  responding  party. 


Analytical  Exercises  29 

TEACHER:  Here  is  another  student  with  an  independent  trend  of 
mind  and  logical  reasoning.  Such  students,  exercising  and  develop- 
ing their  thinking,  reasoning,  and  comparative  faculties,  in  their 
studies,  will  become  leaders  among  men,  and  useful  in  the  community, 
state,  and  nation.  Now,  can  you  see  any  improvement  to  be  made 
in  Nelly's  and  Roy's  translations? 

NELLY  (swift  and  nimble  as  Dorcas):  I  can  improve  mine  by 
exchanging  Roy's  "impossible"  for  my  "rejected,"  making  it:  "Time 
proposed  impossible." 

TEACHER  (smiling):  That's  a  splendid  proposal.  Girls  naturally 
have  a  keen  perception  with  regard  to  proposals,  and  this  one  is 
certainly  par  excellence. 

ROY:     Ruth  has  also  a  substitute  word — "unacceptable." 

TEACHER:  That  substitution  speaks  well  for  Ruth,  for  it  gives 
evidence  of  independence  and  originality.  But  how  many  letters 
has  she  in  that  word? 

ROY:     Twelve. 

TEACHER:  How  many  letters  are  allowed  to  pass  for  one  word  in 
a  telegram? 

No  response. 

TEACHER:  Only  ten  letters  to  each  word;  hence  Ruth  will  have 
to  pay  for  two  words  for  that  one;  otherwise  her  translation  is  good. 
What's  the  matter  with  Joe's  translation?  That  also  indicates 
originality,  though  his  sentence  may  be  faulty.  Can  anyone  in  the 
class  find  the  literal  meaning  of  his  telegram? 

MAUD:  Joe  has  made  out  ten  forty-five  rejections  in  the  evening, 
or  that  he  was  rejecting  ten  forty-five  in  the  evening. 

TEACHER:  The  meaning  of  Joe's  telegram  is  somewhat  obscure. 
I  call  your  attention  to  this,  because  it  is  important  to  be  able  to 
express  exactly  what  you  mean  in  the  shortest  possible  way.  I 
appreciate  Joe's  efforts  to  be  original,  and  will  rather  see  a  mistake 
in  this  attempt  than  to  be  correct  in  a  stereotype  form,  in  the  school- 
room and  class,  but  be  sure  to  avoid  ambiguity  in  application.  Maud's 
translation  is  literal  and  as  nearly  correct  an  expression  of  the  literal 
meaning  of  "maigzozzuz"  as  you  could  make  it,  indicating  that  she 
will  be  an  honest  and  reliable  translator  and  interpreter.  Frank's 
telegram  indicates  a  desire  to  be  clear  and  definite,  though  his  "not 
accepted"  for  "rejected,"  the  literal  meaning  of  "zuz,"  might  place 
him  in  the  wasting  class.  Joe  needs  to  practice  clearness  and  con- 
ciseness. Ruth  should  also  give  special  attention  to  conciseness, 
never  forgetting  to  count  the  letters  in  her  telegraphic  words.  But  in 
this  the  Scientific  Dial  System  will  be  a  help  to  all  of  you,  because  of 
its  brevity,  simplicity  and  legibility.  Roy  and  Nellie  exhibit  marked 
intelligence  and  independence,  which  will  be  very  useful  if  used  with 
caution  and  prudence,  but  which  may  become  harmful  and  dangerous 
to  themselves  and  others  if  used  carelessly  and  indiscriminately. 
For  in  substitution,  or  the  using  of  words  and  expressions  of  our  own 
choosing,  we  may  easily  pervert  the  meaning  and  good  intention  of 
others. 


30  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

LESSON  VIII 

ANALYTICAL  EXERCISES.     CONTINUED. 

TEACHER:  Good  morning,  class.  I  am  glad  to  see  you  all  here 
so  good  looking  and  apparently  interested.  We  will  now  take  up 
the  larger  numerals,  going  into  the  thousands  and  millions.  Frank, 
you  may  step  to  the  blackboard  and  translate  and  analyze  51,936.75. 
The  first  thing  to  determine  in  your  translation  and  analysis  is  to 
find  out  what  Grand  Division  the  numeral  to  be  translated  belongs 
to. 

FRANK:     It  belongs  to  the  Second  Grand  Division. 

TEACHER:     Why? 

FRANK:  Because  the  translation  of  36  is  "te,"  and  "e"  controls 
the  Second  Grand  Division. 

TEACHER:  So  far,  you  are  right.  But  isn't  something  else  to 
be  said  about  Grand  Divisions  before  proceeding  further? 

FRANK:     I  don't  see  any. 

NELLY  (holding  up  her  hand) :     I  do. 

TEACHER:     What? 

NELLY:  It  also  belongs  to  the  Fourth  Grand  Division,  because 
of  the  decimal  fraction  "-3%,"  the  translation  of  which  is  "os,"  and 
"o"  controls  the  Fourth  Grand  Division. 

TEACHER:  That's  correct.  Then  where  does  this  numeral  be- 
long? 

FRANK:     To  the  Second  and  Fourth  Grand  Divisions. 

TEACHER:     Very  good.     Now  translate  and  analyze. 

FRANK:  The  decimal  fraction  "-j3^"  equals  "os" ;  whole  number  36 
equals  "te";  900  equals  "la";  1000  equals  "e,"  and  50,000  equals 
"gi";  hence  51,936.75  equals  "gielateos." 

TEACHER:  Very  good,  Frank.  Now  translate  and  analyze  as 
before  75,498.10. 

FRANK:  This  numeral  belongs  to  the  Fifth  and  First  Grand  Di- 
visions, because  98  equals  "wu,"  and  '  VA"  equals  "am,"  and  "u"  and 
"a"  control  the  Fifth  and  First  Grand  Divisions,  respectively.  Now, 
"^CL"  equals  "am,"  and  98  equals  "wu,"  400  equals  "fa,"  5000  equals 
"ge,"  and  70,000  equals  "ji";  hence  75,498.10  equals  "jigefawuam." 

TEACHER:     How  do  you  make  out  that  "ji"  equals  70,000? 

FRANK:  Because  "i"  equals  10,000  outside  its  Grand  Division 
control,  and  "j"  equals  7;  hence  7  times  10,000  equals  70,000. 

TEACHER:  Pretty  good;  but  haven't  you  omitted  something  in 
your  definition? 

FRANK:     I  guess  not.     I  don't  know  of  anything  left  out. 

TEACHER:  Nelly's  hand  is  up;  let's  hear  what  she  has  to  say 
about  it. 

NELLY:  Except  when  preceding  or  followed  by  "z"  in  poly- 
syllable words. 

TEACHER:     That's  right.     Frank,  can  you  recite  Rule  8? 

FRANK:  Yes,  sir.  I  didn't  think  of  that.  Vowels  preceding  "z," 
in  polysyllable  words,  retain  their  Grand  Division  value  and  control. 


Analytical  Exercises 


31 


TEACHER:  Very  good,  Frank.  Now  I  will  show  you  and  the 
class  another  way  to  translate  and  analyze.  We  will  take,  for  ex- 
ample, the  last  number  of  common  figures.  Then  we  have,  first, 
70,000.10,  then  5,000,  then  400,  then  98.  Now  we  place  these  sums 
in  a  column,  as  in  addition,  and  then  the  Scientific  Dial  numeral  in 
the  same  way,  thus: 

70,000.10  jizzzam 

5,000  gezz 
400  faz 

98  wu 


75,498.10 


jigefawuam 


TEACHER:  Now,  do  you  see  how  extremely  simple  and  easy  this 
translation  and  analysis  is.  At  this  stage  of  the  demonstration,  you 
want  to  observe  and  fix  in  your  minds  that  "z"  is  the  Scientific  Dial 
Float  or  Zero,  used  merely  to  fill  space.  Joe,  step  to  the  blackboard, 
translate  and  analyze  168,435. 


JOSEPH: 


TEACHER: 
JOSEPH: 


100,000 

60,000 

8,000 

400 

35 

168,435 

Good  for  Joe. 

600,000 

5,000 

92 


ozzzzz 

hizzz 

kezz 

faz 

se 

ohikefase 

Now  translate  and  analyze  605,092. 

hozzzz 

gezz 

pu 


605,092 


hogepu 


TEACHER:  If  we  had  only  600,000,  how  would  you  translate  and 
analyze? 

JOSEPH:  "o"  designating  100,000,  it  would  simmer  down  to 
"hoza." 

TEACHER:  That's  correct,  and  a  fine  way  of  expressing  it,  too. 
The  Scientific  Dial  numerals  grow  only  as  the  number  of  subordinate 
values  are  expressed.  That  is  to  say:  The  cardinal  numerals  are 
crowded  to  the  left  to  make  room  for  the  lesser;  but  if  no  smaller 
amounts  are  represented,  in  the  sum  total,  then  the  cardinal  occupies 
the  position  next  to  the  Grand  Division  vowel. 

What  has  now  been  said  with  reference  to  "o,"  signifying  100,000, 
is  also  true  respecting  "u,"  the  million  signifier,  and  "i"  and  "e"  in 
their  respective  functions.  Thus,  daza,  300;  leza,  9,000;  kiza,  80,000; 
goza,  500,000;  and  muza,  10,000,000.  Nelly,  you  may  come  to  the 
blackboard.  Translate  and  analyze  49,416,999. 


32                                   The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

NELLY:          49,000,000  lizu,zzz,zzz 

400,000  foz,zzz 

16,000  te,zzz 

900  laz 

99  xu 


49,416,999  lizufotelaxu 

TEACHER:     Now  analyze  the  same  in  the  usual  way. 

NELLY:  49,000,000  equals  "lizu,"  400,000  equals  "fo,"  16,000 
equals  "te,"  900  equals  "la,"  and  99  equals  "xu,"  hence  lizufotelaxu. 

TEACHER:  Very  good.  Now  tell  the  class  what  you  have  done 
and  why  you  did  it. 

NELLY:  One  million  equals  "u"  and  forty-nine  equals  "li";  hence 
"lizu"  equals  forty-nine  millions;  one  hundred  thousand  equals  "o," 
and  four  equals  "f";  hence  "fo"  equals  four  hundred  thousand;  one 
thousand  equals  "e,"  and  sixteen  equals  "t";  hence  "te"  equals 
sixteen  thousand;  "a"  equals  one  hundred,  and  "1"  equals  nine; 
hence  "la"  equals  nine  hundred;  and  "xu,"  a  Fifth  Grand  Division 
numeral,  equals  ninety-nine;  hence  the  translation  lizufotelaxu. 

TEACHER:  Very  good.  But  how  do  you  make  49  out  of  "liz?" 
"i"  stands  for  10,000  in  polysyllable  words,  does  it  not?  and  "1" 
designates  nine;  then  would  not  your  numeral  in  this  instance  desig- 
nate 90,000  instead  of  49? 

NELLY:  It  would,  except  for  the  "z,"  which  follows  and  which 
restores  to  "i"  its  Grand  Division  value,  ranging  from  41  to  60,  the 
specific  value  determined  by  the  numeral  consonant  "1,"  which  equals 
nine;  hence  in  this  instance  its  designated  value  is  49  millions,  not 
90  thousand  millions. 

TEACHER  (smiling  in  contentment):  No  use  trying  to  lead  you 
off  the  track,  Nelly.  I'll  soon  have  to  turn  the  class  over  to  you. 
Now,  then,  if  the  "z"  were  omitted,  and  you  had  written  "liu" 
instead  of  "lizu,"  it  would  have  been  ninety  thousand  millions, 
would  it  not? 

NELLY:     Yes,  sir. 

RUTH:     But  suppose  you  wanted  to  write  just  ninety  millions? 

TEACHER:  That's  right.  How  would  you  write  ninety  millions, 
Nelly? 

NELLY:  That  is  just  as  easy  as  any  other  number,  remembering 
that  vowels  preceding  "z"  retain  their  Grand  Division  values,  accord- 
ing to  Rule  8.  "mu"  equals  90;  therefore  ninety  millions  equal 
"muzu,"  or  to  be  more  definite,  "muzuza,"  which  is  the  simplest 
form  for  ninety  millions  in  Scientific  Dial  numeral  expression. 

FRANK:  But  that  way  of  writing  it  seems  to  indicate  pounds — 
ninety  million  pounds. 

TEACHER:     How  can  you  explain  that,  Nelly? 

NELLY:  In  that  case  the  "z"  should  be  doubled  between  the  last 
two  vowels.  If  pounds  were  intended  the  word  should  have  another 
syllable,  and  be  written  thus:  "muzuzazza." 

TEACHER:  Why  not  write  "muzuzza,"  Miss  Nelly,  designating 
ninety  million  pounds? 


Analytical  Exercises  33 

NELLY:  Because  I  could  not  then  express  First  Grand  Division 
whole  numbers  or  fractions. 

TEACHER:     Will  you  demonstrate  by  examples? 

NELLY:  Yes,  sir.  Suppose  I  have  the  fraction  y1^  to  add  to 
the  ninety  millions,  as,  90,000,000.15,  which  must  be  written  "mu- 

>ne  unless  the  word  ended  in  the  First 
But  if  I  should  have  to  add  the  whole 
number  10,  as,  90,000,010.15,  then  I  must  write  "muzumas."  The 
insertion  of  the  "z"  next  to  the  Grand  Division  vowel  in  this  case, 
it  seems  to  me,  simply  indicates  that  the  numeral  as  expressed  con- 
tains no  units,  tens,  hundreds,  thousands,  etc.,  of  value. 

TEACHER:     Class,  is  that  plain  to  all  of  you? 

CLASS:     Yes,  sir. 

TEACHER:  Nelly,  I  thank  yOu  very,  very  much,  for  having  done 
so  much  explanation  and  demonstration  for  me.  You  have  demon- 
strated that  you  are  a  thoughtful  student;  and  I  am  glad  to  be  able 
to  say  that  of  all  of  you. 

Rule  8  applies  only  to  numerals  exceeding  twenty  millions.  But 
it  is  good  for  you  to  fix  this  rule  and  the  demonstrations  well  in  your 
minds,  for  you  want  to  be  able  at  all  times  to  understand  and  to 
make  use  of  the  entire  system. 

In  closing  the  study  of  this  lesson,  I  want  each  one  of  the  class  to 
write  the  number  49,416,999  in  the  shortest  way  possible  for  a  tele- 
gram. 

ROY:  Forty-nine  millions  four  hundred  sixteen  thousand  nine 
hundred  ninety-nine. 

NELLY:     Forty-nine  four  sixteen  nine  ninety-nine. 

TEACHER:  I  notice  that  your  telegrams  are  all  alike,  except 
Nelly's,  which  is  the  shortest,  and  yet  she  has  seven  words. 

RUTH:  But  she  hasn't  expressed  denominations  at  all.  You 
couldn't  know  if  she  meant  millions,  thousands,  or  hundreds  or  any- 
thing. 

NELLY:  Yes,  I  do.  I  have  first  forty-nine,  and  write  that  down 
in  common  numbers;  then  four  sixteen,  and  place  that  sum  down 
to  the  right  next  to  the  first;  then  nine  ninety-nine  next  again;  and 
the  sum-total  of  the  figures  obtained  expresses  the  millions,  the 
thousands,  the  hundreds,  and  the  tens  and  units  also. 

RUTH:     Yes,  I  see  it  now. 

TEACHER:  Well  done.  But  how  many  letters  have  you  in  your 
Scientific  Dial  numeral? 

NELLY:     Twelve. 

TEACHER:  Then,  how  does  this  compare  with  your  common 
figures  in  telegraphing? 

NELLY:  It  accounts  for  two  words  against  at  least  seven  in  the 
old  style  mode  of  expression. 

TEAC  HER  :  It  does.  But  as  ten  letters  are  allowed  in  a  telegraphic 
word,  we  can  afford  to  have  both  fractions  and  designators  added 
without  increasing  the  expense  or  obscuring  the  meaning  or  legibility 
of  the  word.  Miss  Maud,  you  may  take  the  numeral  "lizufotelaxu" 
and  add  y7^  and  also  designate  pounds. 


34 


The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 


MAUD:  y7^  equals  "os,"  and  pounds  are  designated  by  "za"; 
hence  we  have  "lizufotelaxuosza,"  equivalent  to  49,416,999.75 
pounds. 

TEACHER:     How  many  words  does  that  add  to  Nelly's  telegram? 

MAUD:     Four   words:      "Seventy-five   hundredths   pound." 

TEACHER:  Very  good.  That  makes  eleven  words  for  Nelly's 
telegram,  and  yet  she  has  not  expressed  her  denominations  distinctly, 
which  our  Scientific  Dial  numeral  -has  and  does  legibly,  distinctly, 
unequivocally.  And  yet  we  have  to  account  for  only  two  words, 
while  the  old  way  of  expression  requires  eleven  words.  We  will  close 
this  session  by  learning  another  Rule. 

Rule  12.     Scientific  Dial  numeral  letters  may  be  used  in  all  kinds 
of  mathematical  calculation,  just  as  common  figures  are  used. 
EXAMPLES:  b,    c,    d,   f,    g,    h,   j,    k,   1,     z. 
1,    2,    3,    4,    5,    6,    7,    8,    9,    0. 


ADDITIONS 

10 

bz 

14 

bf 

18 

bk 

31 

db 

125 

3698 

65 

3 


beg 
dhlk 

hg 
d 


15       bg  or  sa  73       jd  or  qo  3891         dklb  or  dekanu. 

TEACHER:     Roy,  you  may  work  out  a  few  examples  in  subtraction. 
I  will  give  you 
numerals. 
9376 
6458 


the  numbers.     Also  transform  into  Scientific  Dial 


2918 


Idjh 
hfgk 

clbk  or  celawa 


2000 
900 

18 

2918 


cezz 
laz 
wa 

celawa 


TEACHER:  Pretty  good  for  Roy.  Nelly  and  Maud,  you  may  go 
to  the  blackboard,  Maud  to  work  an  example  in  multiplication  and 
Nelly  one  in  division. 

MAUD:  23614  cdhbf 

2  c 


NELLY: 


47228 

47228(2 
4         — 


fjcck  or  fijecake 


fjcck(c 
f       — 


23614 
07 
$_ 
12 
12 
002 
2 

08 
8 


cdhbf  or  cidehara 

1 

be 
bc_ 
zzc 
c 

~zk 
k 


Analytical  Exercises  35 

TEACHER:  Very,  very  good.  You  are  all  making  excellent  prog- 
ress, and  a  few  sessions  more  will  finish  your  primer  course  and  enable 
you  to  use  the  Scientific  Dial  intelligently  and  profitably,  until  ad- 
vanced courses  have  been  prepared  and  printed.  Now  study  this 
rule  and  its  application  diligently,  until  tomorrow,  and  you  will  find 
that  these  numeral  letters  may  be  used  in  all  kinds  of  mathematical 
calculation,  just  as  readily  and  easily  as  common  figures;  but  that 
their  application  and  usefulness  have  a  much  larger  range,  owing  to 
their  vast  pliability,  than  common  figures. 


LESSON  IX 

ANALYTICAL  EXERCISES.     CONTINUED 
FRACTIONS 

TEACHER:  Good  morning,  class.  I  am  glad  to  see  you  all  here 
again — all  bright  as  the  morning  star,  all  happy  as  the  lark,  all  good- 
looking,  and,  best  of  all,  all  interested-looking. 

We  have  a  simple  way  to  write  decimal  fractions,  but  we  have  not 
yet  learned  how  to  write  common  fractions  in  Scientific  Dial  Numer- 
als. We  will  therefore  learn  a  few  more  rules  before  proceeding 
further. 

Rule'13.  The  German  and  Scandinavian  vowel  "a,"  as  the  Eng- 
lish "a"  in  fake,  stake,  take,  hay,  lay,  may,  etc.  This  vowel  we  use 
to  designate  the  division  line  between  the  numerator  and  the  denom- 
inator in  a  common  fraction,  thus:  -J-  equals  bac;  f,  cad;  f,  gak; 
jV,  lat;  and  mixed  numbers,  thus:  6f,  hajak  (ha-jak);  5-J-,  gabac 
(ga-bac,  ga-bash);  lOJf,  masaes. 

(The  fact  that  this  letter  "a"  is  present  in  a  word  is  an  indication 
that  it  is  a  numeral  and  contains  a  fraction.) 

Rule  14.  The  fractional  designator  "a"  always  absorbs  or  takes 
to  itself  only  one  numeral  letter  to  the  left  of  its  own  position,  but  all 
that  follows  to  the  right,  when  joined  to  a  whole  number  in  Scientific 
Dial  numerals,  as,  pasalo,  12-J4;  satapu,  15-j-f,  etc. 

Rule  15.  The  Swedish  vowel  "6,"  as  "i"  in  fir,  sir,  flirt,  shirk,  etc., 
is  used  as  a  spacer  or  link,  designating  the  linking  together  of  two  or 
more  words  into  one  word  for  the  purpose  of  abbreviation,  as,  dotat, 
3  cows;  folay,  4  sheep;  loalmax,  9  boys;  loalmay,  9  girls;  bopota,  1, 
12,  16;  beolope,  21,  9,  and  32;  puoteosomo,  92,  36,  15  and  70;  tatolay, 
cows  and  sheep;  amaxoamay,  sons  and  daughters. 

EXAMPLES 

Maud  and  Roy  may  go  to  the  blackboard.    Miss  Maud  translate  9T6T, 

and  25Jf 

Roy  may  display  the  same  examples  in  workable  form,  and  ex- 
press each  one  in  Scientific  Dial  numerals. 
MAUD:     lahan,  fanaeg,  gevaev. 


36  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

ROY:        9-A-  -  W 

bb        na 

41-4==^-  =  —  =  — 
eg         ge 

lfc      -  laci 

,  .         

dj         ve 

TEACHER:     Class,  any  remarks? 

NELLY:     I  can't  see  anything  wrong  with  either. 

TEACHER:  How  would  you  connect  the  last  fraction,  the  nine 
hundred  and  forty-two  thirty-sevenths,  or  "laci  ve,"  in  telegraphing? 

ROY:  We  could  use  the  fraction  designator  "a"  and  write 
"laciave." 

NELLY:     No.   (and  shaking  her  head  suspiciously). 

TEACHER:     Why? 

NELLY:  Because  Rule  14  says  that  the  fraction  designator  "a" 
controls  or  takes  to  itself  one  letter  to  the  left;  here,  then,  absorbing 
"i,"  which,  together  with  "c,"  is  equivalent  to  42. 

TEACHER:  That  is  correct.  But  then,  what  would  you  do  with 
this  or  similar  numbers  or  fractions  in  telegraphing? 

NELLY:  I  would  reduce  it  to  its  natural  mixed  number  form, 
the  way  Maud  has  it,  "gevaev,"  which  is  twenty-five  and  seventeen 
thirty-sevenths. 

TEACHER:     What  do  you  have  to  say  to  that? 

ROY:     I  see  the  point  now. 

MAUD  (smiling):     You  have  to  come  back  to  me  anyhow. 

TEACHER  (jestingly):  May  this  intimation  by  Miss  Maud  become 
a  future  reality.  (Suppressed  mirthfulness) . 

MAUD:     I  didn't  mean  it  that  way. 

TEACHER:  Neither  did  I.  I  only  meant  for  you  to  be  correct  and 
precise  in  all  your  work,  and  that  to  such  a  degree  that  you  and  your 
work  may  become  a  model  and  an  example  to  be  looked  up  to,  and 
thus  become  a  beneficent  influence  in  this  world,  a  blessing.  Now, 

ss  Maud,  will  you  pardon  me? 

MAUD:  Certainly  —  I  —  I  —  need  your  pardon  —  I  misunder- 
stood you. 

TEACHER:  Very  good;  then  we  are  even,  and  will  proceed. 
Ruth  and  Joseph  may  go  to  the  blackboard  and  do  some  examples 
under  Rule  15.  Ruth,  how  will  you  combine  or  link  together  10,  12, 
25  and  95;  f  and  T9?;  $154.50  and  36.35? 

RUTH:     mopogeosu;  dagolam;  arimotes. 

JOSEPH:  Bread  and  butter,  acacoameg;  soda  water,  vanilla  flavor, 
ajahoagaf;  Java  coffee  and  Ceylon  tea,  ahamoahav;  cube  sugar  and 
cream,  ahafoamef. 

TEACHER:  Good.  These  examples  illustrate  how  two  or  more 
words  may  be  joined  together  without  losing  their  respective  identity 
and  meaning. 


Analytical  Exercises  37 

FRANK:     I  don't  understand  Ruth's  combinations. 

TEACHER:     Why?     How  would  you  have  it? 

FRANK:  Because  10  is  ma  and  12  is  pa;  hence  I  would  write 
maopaogeosu. 

TEACHER:     Ruthie  will  explain. 

RUTH:  I  went  over  to  Nelly's  last  night,  and  she  had  already 
learned  this  rule  in  advance,  so  we  worked  a  number  of  examples  to- 
gether; and  we  worked  examples  like  this  that  way.  We  compared 
Rule  12  with  the  diagram  and  found  that  we  may  treat  all  consonant 
letters  as  numerals  of  natural  first  division  values.  Therefore 
mopogeosu  is  just  as  legible  as  Frank's  maopaogeosu  would  be,  and 
it  makes  the  word  two  letters  shorter  and  much  easier  to  pronounce. 

TEACHER:     Class,  what  do  you  think  of  that? 

ROY:  That  looks  all  right  to  me.  These  girls  seem  to  be  getting 
ahead  of  their  class. 

NELLY:  I  always  try  to  look  over  the  lesson  to  follow  in  advance, 
and  I  find  that  it  helps  me  very  much,  as  I  have  become  acquainted 
some  with  the  appearance  of  it  and  its  relation  to  the  one  under 
consideration. 

TEACHER:  Nelly's  method  of  study  is  commendable.  And  it 
shows  that  a  student  may  acquire  the  Scientific  Dial  System  by  self- 
study,  if  diligently  and  perseveringly  pursued. 

Our  next  lesson  will  embrace  days,  weeks,  months  and  years. 
You  will  notice  that  the  Scientific  Dial  names  and  designations 
naturally  grow  or  develop  out  of  existing  usage  and  practice  and  are 
put  to  more  practical  use.  There  is,  therefore,  practically  nothing  new 
about  it  except  the  application.  With  the  progress  in  your  studies 
and  the  advancement  in  general  knowledge  which  you  have  made, 
the  next  lesson  should  be  easily  understood  and  remembered. 

With  two  more  lessons,  our  Scientific  Dial  Primary  Course  will 
end.  By  using  our  code  and  vocabulary,  you  should  now  be  able  to 
write  telegrams  and  letters.  I  now  want  each  one  of  you  to  bring 
a  telegram  of  his  own  make  up  to  the  next  exercise. 


LESSON  X 

DAYS,  WEEKS,  MONTHS,  AND  YEARS 

Days,  Weeks,  Months,  and  Years  are  designated  by  numerals,  con- 
forming to  the  following  rules: 

Rule  16.  Days  of  the  month  are  designated  by  the  simple  decimal 
numerals,  from  1  to  31,  1— 31-ab  to  en,  ab— en,  as,  ab,  the  first; 
ca  (sha)  the  second;  da,  the  third,  etc. 

Rule  17.  Days  of  the  week  are  designated  by  the  doubling  of  the 
decimal  consonant  and  adding  the  vowel  a,  as,  Abba,  the  first  day 
or  Sunday;  Acca  (asha),  the  second  day  of  the  week  or  Monday;  Adda, 
the  third  day  of  the  week  or  Tuesday,  etc. 


38  The  Scientific  Dial^Primer 

Rule  18.  The  months  are  designated  by  whole  numerals  or  in- 
tegers, 1  to  12=  ba — pa,  as,  "Ba,"  the  first  month  or  January;  "Ca," 
the  second  month  or  February;  "Da,"  the  third  month  or  March,  etc. 

Rule  19.  The  first  and  last  numeral  in  combination  in  each  class 
constitute  the  name  for  the  whole  group,  as  follows:  The  first  and 
last  numerals  of  days  in  each  month  are  "ab"  (the  first)  and  "en" 
(the  last),  as  our  longest  months  are  31  -days.  Now,  therefore,  the 
combination  of  these  two  decimal  numerals,  ab-en,  is  "Aben,"  hence 
this  is  the  Scientific  Dial  name  for  month,  just  as  in  general  notation 
we  write  1 — 31,  designating  from  first  to  thirty-first  with  all  between 
included.  But  to  make  a  name  out  of  first — thirty-first  would  be 
grotesque,  while  our  Scientific  Dial  Notation  is  especially  adapted  to 
combinations  and  abbreviations.  Note  also  that  the  name  itself  con- 
veys its  meaning,  needing  no  definition.  The  same  is  true  with  all 
the  rest  of  the  group.  Applying  the  same  rule  to  week-days,  we  have 
"Abba,"  the  first  day,  and  "Ajja,"  the  seventh  or  last  day;  therefore 
"Abaj"  is  the  Scientific  Dial  name  for  week.  Applying,  again,  the 
same  rule  to  the  months,  we  have  "Ba,"  the  first  month,  and  "Pa," 
the  twelfth  or  last  month  of  the  year;  hence  "Bapa"  is  the  Scientific 
Dial  name  for  the  year.  The  particular  year  intended  is  designated 
by  its  number,  as,  1910,  "Elama";  1911,  "Elana";  1912,  "Elapa"; 
1915,  "Elasa,"  etc. 

Notice,  that  the  name  for  each  group  grows  naturally  out  of  the 
combination  of  the  first  and  last  numeral  name  of  each  group,  a 
modus  operandi  in  vogue,  though  executed  in  another  form,  as, 
1 — 5  =  1  to  5,  and  includes  all  five,  though  only  the  first  and  the  last 
are  expressed. 

Rule  20.  In  writing  date,  month,  and  year,  combine  the  numerals 
designating  day,  month,  and  year  intended,  in  the  usual  order,  as, 
"Bapelana."  Ba-ap-e-la-na,  January  12th,  1911.  We  sometimes 
abbreviate  our  common  notation  by  writing  1-12-11,  but  in  this  in- 
stance we  still  have  to  account  for  at  least  three  words.  In  the  Scien- 
tific Dial  combined  notation,  we  need  not  abbreviate,  and  yet  we 
have  to  account  for  only  one  word.  Analyzing,  we  have  "Ba,"  the 
first  month,  "Ap,"  the  twelfth  day  of  the  month,  and  "Elana,"  the 
1911th  year;  which  combined  forms  the  word  "Bapelana."  Then,  in 
dating,  we  write,  San  Francisco,  California,  "Bapelana,"  and  we  have 
San  Francisco,  California,  January  twelfth,  1911,  clearly,  legibly  ex- 
pressed in  three  words  instead  of  seven  in  the  old  way. 

Scientific  Dial  Names  of  Days,  Weeks,  Months,  Quarters 
and  Years 

Abba,             First  day;                  Devotion-day,  Sunday; 

Acca  (Asha)  Second  day;              Reflection-day,  Monday; 

Adda,            Third  day,                Self- Examination-day,  Tuesday; 

Affa,              Fourth  day,              Execution-day,  Wednesday; 

Agga,             Fifth  day,                 Complement-day,  Thursday; 

Ahha,            Sixth  day,                 Conciliation-day,  Friday; 

Ajja,              Seventh  day,            Retribution-day,  Saturday. 


Analytical  Exercises  39 

Bapa,  Name  of  the  year; 
Aben,  Name  of  the  month; 
Abaj,   Name  of  the  week; 
Sola,     Name  of  the  day; 
Bada,  Name  of  first  quarter; 
Faha,  Name  of  second  quarter; 
Jala,    Name  of  third  quarter; 
Mapa,  Name  of  fourth  quarter. 


LESSON  XI 

ANALYTICAL  EXERCISES.     CONTINUED. 

TEACHER:  Good  morning,  class.  Have  you  found  any  difficulty 
in  understanding  the  Scientific  Dial  names  for  the  year,  the  month, 
the  week,  the  quarter,  the  day? 

CLASS:     No;  it's  all  simple  and  easy. 

TEACHER:  Frank,  give  the  Scientific  Dial  name  of  the  year  and 
define. 

FRANK:  Ba-Pa,  Bapa,  from  "Ba,"  the  first  (month)  and  "Pa," 
the  twelfth  (month);  hence,  first  to  twelfth,  1 — 12,  Ba-pa,  Bapa,  year. 

TEACHER:  Good.  I  am  glad  to  notice  this  advancement  in  your 
perception  and  understanding,  Frank.  Joseph  may  give  the  Scien- 
tific Dial  name  for  month  and  define. 

JOSEPH:  Ab — En,  Aben,  from  "Ab,"  the  first  day  of  the  month, 
to  "En,"  the  thirty-first  or  last  day  of  the  longest  months;  hence, 
first  to  thirty-first,  1 — 31,  Ab — En,  Aben,  month. 

TEACHER:  Why  not  "Abem,"  from  1 — 30?  Months  are  generally 
counted  30  days,  are  they  not? 

JOSEPH:  For  Rule  19  stipulates  from  "Ab"  to  "En,"  not  from 
"Ab"  to  "Em." 

TEACHER:     Can  you  give  any  good  reason  for  that  stipulation? 

JOSEPH:  Yes.  Seven  months  of  the  year  have  31  days  while 
only  4  months  have  30  days,  and  one  28,  though  sometimes  29. 

TEACHER:  Joseph  is  right.  This  will  not  change  the  common 
usage  of  counting  30  days  for  a  business  month  in  counting  interest, 
etc.  Maud  may  give  us  the  Scientific  Dial  name  of  the  week  and 
define. 

MAUD:  Abba — Ajja,  Abaj,  from  "Ab,"  the  first,  to  "Aj,"  the 
seventh,  the  last  day  of  the  week;  hence,  first  to  seventh,  1 — 7,  Ab — 
Aj,  Abaj,  week. 

FRANK:  I  understand  that  Maud  has  worked  her  example  in  con- 
formity with  the  rule,  but  there  seems  to  me  some  inconsistency  in 
her  work,  nevertheless.  The  first  day  of  the  week  is  Abba  and  the 
seventh  day  is  Ajja;  consistently,  then,  the  name  of  the  week  should 
be  "Abbajja,"  or  Abaja. 


40  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

TEACHER:  Your  remark,  Frank,  is  much  appreciated.  I  have  a 
high  regard  for  students  who  think  and  reason  and  ask  questions. 
And  your  remark,  too,  is  well  worth  considering.  Has  any  one  of 
the  class  anything  to  say  about  it? 

NELLY:  The  ending  or  the  last  syllable  "ja"  in  Frank's  name  is 
the  name  of  the  seventh  month;  therefore  it  would  be  a  mixing  up  of 
designators  for  days,  which  are  the  decimals,  with  designators  for 
months,  which  are  whole  numbers;  and  "Ja"  is  an  integer  and  a 
designator  of  the  seventh  month  of  the  year,  or  July. 

TEACHER:     What  have  you  to  say  about  Nelly's  explanation? 

FRANK:     I  guess  she  is  right. 

ROY:  Yes,  Nelly  is  right.  But  it  seems  that  the  names  of  all  the 
week-days  are  subject  to  the  same  objection.  In  the  name  of  the 
First  day,  Sunday,  which  is  "Abba,"  we  have  a  decimal  and  a  whole 
number  connected.  "Ab"  is  a  decimal  .01,  and  "Ba"  is  the  whole 
number  "1." 

TEACHER:  This  is  a  singular  combination  for  a  purpose,  which 
will  scarcely  ever  occur  in  any  other  combination,  except  in  names 
and  code-words.  For  in  actual  numerals,  designating  quality  or 
quantity,  the  whole  number  or  integer  always  precedes  the  decimal 
or  fraction;  hence  it  is  not  liable  to  cause  confusion  or  misunder- 
standing. Besides,  Abba  is  a  very  pretty  and  appropriate  name  for 
Sunday,  expressing  submissive  filial  relation  with  God. 

"Sweeter  than — father,  mother,  shall  be  found 
The  Abba  on  thy  tongue," 

says  Browning.  And  it  is  fortunate  for  the  Scientific  Dial  System 
that  it  spells  Abba,  dear,  loving  Father,  looking  upward  to  him 

"From  whom  all  blessings  flow," 

with  the  very  first  letters  in  its  system,  thus  entering  with  prayer 
and  praise  right  at  the  starting-point.  Now,  class,  will  this  explana- 
tion satisfy  you? 

NELLY:     I  am  not  only  satisfied  but  pleased. 

ROY:  Something  new,  surprising  but  always  pleasing,  seems  to 
turn  up  all  the  time.  What  a  wealth  of  new  things  must  be  revealed 
in  the  next  course  of  studies. 

TEACHER:  Certainly;  but  don't  wait  for  a  new  book  or  an  addi- 
tional course  for  you  to  study.  The  development  is  and  must  be 
made  from  the  Scientific  Dial  itself,  as  presented  in  these  twelve 
lessons.  The  fountain  is  there  for  anyone  to  draw  from;  the  mine 
with  its  treasures  is  discovered,  the  shaft  sunk  into  it  inviting  every- 
body to  seek  and  find.  And  I  hope  that  by  continued  intelligent 
study,  application  and  practice,  you  will  discover  new  chambers,  lays, 
and  ledges  of  inestimable  wealth  to  become  a  blessing  not  only  to  our 
contemporaries,  but  even  more  to  our  descendants.  It  now  remains 
for  a  few  observations  with  reference  to  the  dating  of  correspondence 
and  legal  documents.  Roy  may  place  November  fourteenth,  nine- 
teen hundred  eleven,  on  the  blackboard  and  analyze  for  the  class. 


Analytical  Exercises  '  41 

ROY:  Narelana,  from  "Na,"  eleven,  the  eleventh  month,  "Ar," 
fourteen,  the  fourteenth  day;  "E,"  one  thousand,  "La,"  nine  hundred, 
and  "Na,"  eleven;  hence  "Narelana"  =  11—14—1911. 

TEACHER:     Any  remarks? 

NELLY:  When  expressed  in  that  abbreviated  form,  it  is  customary 
to  write  the  date  or  day  of  the  month  first,  thus,  14—11 — 1911,  or 
just  '11  for  the  year. 

TEACHER:  That  is  true,  but  it  is  an  arbitrary  form,  founded  on 
custom  but  not  on  principle.  In  all  printed,  commercial  and  legal 
dating,  it  is  (1)  the  month,  (2)  the  day  of  the  month,  (3)  the  number 
of  the  year.  Therefore,  November  14th,  1911,  or,  as  Roy  has  it, 
"Narelana,"  is  the  correct  commercial  and  legal  form.  We  will  now 
call  upon  our  young  ladies  to  do  some  dating. 

Nelly,  take  Christmas  day,  1875. 

Ruth,  Declaration  day,  1776. 

Maud,  Washington's  birthday,  1925. 

NELLY:  Pa — eg — e — ka — so,  from  "Pa,"  the  twelfth  month, 
"Eg,"  the  twenty-fifth  day,  "E,"  one  thousand  years,  to  which  is 
added  "Ka,"  eight  hundred  years,  and  "So,"  seventy-five  years; 
hence  December  25th,  1875,  Paegekaso. 

RUTH:  Ja — af — e — ja — to,  from  "Ja,"  the  seventh  month,  "Af," 
the  fourth  day,  "E,"  one  thousand,  "Ja,"  seven  hundred,  and  "To," 
the  Fourth  Grand  Division  numeral  for  76;  hence  July  4th,  1776, 
Jafejato. 

MAUD:  Ca — ec — e — la — ge,  from  "Ca,"  the  second  month,  "Ec," 
the  twenty-second  day,  "E,"  one  thousand,  "La,"  nine  hundred, 
and  "Ge,"  a  Second  Grand  Division  numeral  for  twenty-five;  hence 
February  22nd,  1925,  Caecelage. 

TEACHER:     Any  remarks? 

ROY:     The  young  ladies  seem  to  have  performed  their  task  well. 

TEACHER:     Indeed,  they  have.     Now  notice, 

1.  That  the  number  of  the  year  remains  in  each  Grand  Division 
for  twenty  years,  therefore  changes  only  five  times  in  a  century. 
We  are  now  in  the  First  Grand  Division  (A),  where  we  will  remain 
yet  for  eight  years.     1921   will  usher  us  into  the  Second  Grand 
Division  (E),  where  we  will  remain  for  twenty  years,  or  until  the  close 
of  1940,  and  so  on. 

2.  That  the  month  designators  remain  forever  in  the  First  Grand 
Division  (A),  changing  only  the  consonant  numerals  from  "B,"  one, 
or  first,  to  "P,"  twelve,  or  the  twelfth. 

3.  That  the  dates  of  the  month  remain  in  the  First  Grand  Di- 
vision (A)  for  twenty  days,  from  the  first  to  the  twentieth,  then  con- 
tinue in  the  Second  Grand  Division  (E)  for  from  eight  to  eleven  days, 
depending  on  the  number  of  days  in  the  month,  from  "eb,"  the 
twenty-first,  to  "en,"  the  thirty-first.     Thus,  Bam-elana,  January 
10th,  1911;  Baem-elana,  January  30th,  1911;  Pak-elana,  December 
8th,  1911;  Paek-elana,  December  28th,  1911. 

A  good  way  to  fix  these  few  variations  in  the  mind  is  to  write  them 
in  succession,  thus,  elaba,  elaca,  elada,  elafa,  elaga,  elaha,  elaja, 
elaka,  elala,  elama,  elana,  elapa,  elaqa,  elara,  elasa,  elata,  elava,  elawa, 


42  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

elaxa,  elaya;  elabe,  elace,  elade,  elafe,  elage,  elahe,  elaje,  elake, 
elale,  elame,  elane,  elape,  elaqe,  elare,  elase,  elate,  elave,  elawe, 
elaxe,  elaye;  elabi,  elaci,  eladi,  elafi,  etc. 

This  may  serve  as  an  example:  Proceed  with  the  months  and 
days  of  the  month  the  same  way,  until  their  form  has  been  fixed  in 
the  mind  and  may  be  perceived  and  written  or  read  without  hindrance 
or  exertion,  as  readily  and  easily  as  the  old  method  has  become  to 
you. 

The  time  of  our  next  and  last  lesson  will  be  occupied  mainly  with 
telegrams,  which  you  will  study  out  and  write  at  home  ready  for 
the  blackboard.  I  want  two  telegrams  from  each  one  of  you,  one 
of  the  telegrams  to  be  in  the  natural  key  and  the  other  in  some  key 
of  your  own  selection. 

Goodby,  class,  until  we  meet  again. 

CLASS:     Goodby. 


LESSON  XII 

ANALYTICAL  EXERCISES.     CONCLUDED. 
TELEGRAMS 

TEACHER:  Good  morning,  class.  Very  much  pleased  to  see  you 
all  here  at  this  our  concluding  session.  Each  one  of  you  may  copy 
his  telegram  on  the  blackboard,  and  then  Roy  may  translate  Nelly's 
telegram,  and  Nelly  may  translate  Roy's;  Frank  may  translate 
Maud's  telegram  and  Maud  may  translate  Frank's,  and  Joseph  may 
translate  Ruth's  telegram,  and  Ruth  may  translate  Joseph's. 

Class  responds  unhesitatingly. 

NELLY:  Yosemite  Valley,  California,  Jahelana.  Asec  Yosemite 
Jabelana  faemzoz.  Ased  aset.  Oban  almaib  Abba  almal. 

ROY'S  translation:  YOSEMITE  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA,  JULY  6th, 
1911.  My  trip  has  been  very  pleasant  in  every  way.  I  arrived  at 
Yosemite  July  first,  1911,  at  four  thirty  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 
A  number  of  friends  met  me  at  the  station.  I  am  just  all  right  and 
in  the  best  of  spirits.  On  Sunday  I  went  to  church  worshiping. 

ROY:  Chicago,  Illinois,  Kamelana.  Edolga  Chicago  Kapelana 
maszoz.  Aset.  Ebodad  baj.  Eboya  San  Francisco  Kavelana  jaszoz. 

NELLY'S  translation:  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS,  AUGUST  10th,  1911. 
I  will  leave  Chicago  August  12th,  1911,  at  fifteen  minutes  past  ten 
o'clock  in  the  evening.  I  am  just  all  right  and  in  the  best  of  spirits. 
I  have  attended  to  the  shipping.  I  regret  that  I  cannot  meet  you 
at  the  time  and  place  proposed.  I  will  arrive  in  San  Francisco 
August  seventeenth,  nineteen  hundred  eleven,  at  fifteen  minutes 
past  seven  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

MAUD:  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  Lakelana.  Loiha  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri. Adda  Lamelana  laemzoz.  Xaq  jah.  Ebolra  famoszy  lota. 

FRANK'S  translation:     ST.   PAUL,   MINNESOTA,   SEPTEMBER  8th, 


Analytical  Exercises  43 

1911.  Meet  me  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  Tuesday,  September  tenth, 
nineteen  hundred  eleven,  at  half  past  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening. 
Send  the  kitchen  utensils  by  freight.  I  send  check  for  four  hundred 
seventy  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents. 

RUTH:  Denver,  Colorado,  Hapelana.  Ebogant  Los  Angeles 
loiha.  Patuoszy  olraolowa.  Areb  New  York.  Ateig  Paris.  Aset. 

JOSEPH'S  translation:  DENVER,  COLORADO,  JUNE  12th,  1911.  I 
didn't  want^to  meet  you  in  St.  Louis.  Send  me  twelve  hundred 
ninety-six  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents  in  bank  draft.  Have  my 
baggage  and  appendage  forwarded  to  New  York.  I  am  going  to 
Paris  by  steamer.  I  am  just  all  right  and  in  the  very  best  of  spirits. 

JOSEPH:  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  Hatelana.  Jak  ahen  bazzo 
ahep  aheq  ahew.  Ahey  dazzo  ajed  ajef. 

RUTH'S  translation:  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  JUNE  16th; 
1911.  Ship  by  the  American  Express  Company, 

Men's  everyday  shoes — one  dozen  Sunset  welts,  one  dozen  light- 
weight Borded  Kangaroo,  one  dozen  men's  tan  Purside  blue. 

Ladies'  fine  dress  shoes — three  dozen  was  gun-metal  blue,  and 
3  dozen  was  Pat  Pumps. 

FRANK:  Los  Angeles,  California,  Daselana.  Ebodanojal  hazzo- 
oadeb  daiyzy  baoafej  baimzy  mizz adages  soegzy  faimzy  fugzy. 

MAUD'S  translation:  Los  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA,  MARCH  15th, 
1911.  I  have  shipped  by  Wells-Fargo  Express  Company, 

6  dozen  men's  handkerchiefs $  3  60 

1  telescope 1  50 

50  yards  finest  all-wool  heavy  serge 7525 

10  ladies'  close-fitting  elastic  union  suits 4  50 

$84  85 

TEACHER:  Examine  closely  now.  Do  you  find  any  mistake 
either  in  the  Scientific  Dial  telegrams  or  their  interpretation? 

ROY:  Nelly  could  have  saved  one  word  by  connecting  Abba  with 
almal,  making  it  Abbaoalmal. 

NELLY:  But  it  doesn't  sound  well  to  have  the  connecting  vowel 
6  between  two  other  vowels. 

TEACHER:  That's  true;  and  yet  the  word  becomes  perfectly 
pronounceable  by  placing  the  accent  on  the  6,  as,  Abba-6'-almal. 

NELLY:  Roy  has  left  out  the  designator  of  time  in  his  translation. 
For  faemzoz  means  literally  thirty  minutes  after  four  o'clock  in-  the 
afternoon. 

ROY:     I  surrender. 

TEACHER:     You  have  both  done  very  well. 

MAUD:  Roy  could  have  saved  one  word  by  connecting  Ebodad 
with  baj. 

ROY:  I  see.  But  you  have  the  same  omission  in  yours.  Xaqojah 
wouldn't  sound  bad. 

MAUD :     Why  didn't  I  think  of  that? 

TEACHER:  Look  at  Ruth.  How  did  you  ever  get  the  notion  to 
sail  by  steamer  to  Paris  in  that  surprisingly  neat  way? 

RUTH:  My  cousin  James  Nobel  suggested  the  idea  to  me.  He 
has  become  so  intensely  interested  in  the  Scientific  Dial  System 


44  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

that  he  has  already  caught  up  with  me,  though  he  has  been  with  us 
only  about  a  week. 

TEACHER:  I  am  delighted  to  hear  that.  Where  is  your  cousin 
from,  and  how  long  does  he  intend  to  stay? 

RUTH:  Uncle  Nobel  lives  in  Youngstown,  Ohio,  and  James  has 
just  come  to  California  to  see  us  and  what  chances  are  for  starting 
in  business  here.  He  will  probably  stay  with  us  another  week. 

TEACHER:  Why  didn't  you  invite  him  to  come  with  you  to  the 
class? 

RUTH:  Oh,  he  knows  already  all  that  we  know  and  more  too. 
He  says  he  will  interest  the  young  people  and  start  a  class  when  he 
gets  home. 

TELEGRAMS  BY  THE  USE  OF  KEYS 
KEY  OF  "DA"  REVERSE 
KEY  TELEGRAM  BY  NELLIE 

Bak  aneb  ajet  Washington  ajex  arek  gamoszy. 

I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  I  can  meet  you  at  the  time 
and  place  proposed.  How  long  will  I  have  to  wait  at  the  exchange 
station?  How  much  is  a  first-class  ticket  to  Washington,  including 
Pullman  sleeper,  lower  berth?  I  need  five  hundred  seventy  dollars 
and  seventy-five  cents,  which  send  to  me  at  Fresno. 

The  same  in  natural  key: 

I  regret  to  say  that  I  have  other  engagements.  How  much  for  a 
third-class  ticket  to  Washington,  including  lower  berth  in  a  tourist 
car?  Turn  all  the  money  due  me  over  to  my  wife,  and  she  will  give 
you  receipt  for  same. 

KEY  OF  "GA"  PROGRESSIVE 
KEY  TELEGRAM  BY  ROY 

Qabb  San  Francisco,  Adda,  Hapelana.     Sabb  Ebocant  dac  jaw. 

I  am  going  to  the  city  of  San  Francisco,  Tuesday,  June  12th,  1911, 
and  will  cheerfully  do  the  thing  you  asked  of  me.  I  have  attended 
to  the  shipping  of  the  lumber.  Always  carefully  examine  goods 
before  accepting  them  from  the  station  or  freight  office. 

The  same  in  natural  key: 

Precipice  San  Francisco,  Saturday,  February  seventh,  1906. 
Stumble.  Did  not  do  gravel.  Goods  received  in  bad  order,  consider- 
ably bruised. 

KEY  OF  "JA"  PROGRESSIVE 
KEY  TELEGRAM  BY  FRANK 

Ebofan  Abba  Pamelafa  asen  fad  Chicago  baje  Clark  axah  daerzo. 
Ebogant  xaj  yas  abab  yar  abah. 

I  have  selected  Saturday,  June  17th,  1911,  to  go  to  Chicago.  I 
propose  144  Clark  street  as  the  place,  and  half  past  ten  o'clock  in  the 
morning  as  the  time  for  our  meeting.  I  am  going  to  buy  kitchen 
utensils,  a  double  iron  bed,  a  dresser,  a  bedroom  set  and  carpets. 


Analytical  Exercises  45 

The  same  in  natural  key: 

I  have  seized  Sunday,  December  8th,  1904,  to  be  sick  in  bed  to 
Chicago.  I  will  cheerfully  do  the  thing  you  ask  of  me.  137  Clark 
storm  at  twenty-three  minutes  past  three  o'clock  in  the  morning.  I 
did  not  choose  the  cellar,  the  chair,  the  frontroom  set,  the  kitchen 
table  or  sofa. 

KEY  OF  "LA"  PROGRESSIVE 
KEY  TELEGRAM  BY  JOSEPH 

Ebobadt  Nabelana  nal  cidazazza  mad  badzaz  kaq  gav.  Ebocadt 
baza  gav  babzy. 

I  have  shipped  today,  June  tenth,  1911,  ten  and  one-half  tons  of 
peaches  and  9.12  tons  of  sugar  prunes.  What  can  you  sell  cantaloups 
for,  delivered  f .  o.  b.  Turlock?  I  have  secured  ten  hundred  crates  at 
one  dollar  and  ten  cents  per  crate. 

The  same  in  natural  key: 

I  will  not  do  pineapples  at  twenty-three  hundred  pounds.  Fall 
pears  at  1.03  tons.  Send  your  receipt  for  additional  freight  paid  by 
you  to  our  office,  and  we  will  settle  with  the  railroad  company  and 
return  to  you  the  overcharge  at  Turlock.  I  will  not  do  100  paper- 
shell  almonds  at  one  dollar  and  one  cent  per  crate. 

KEY  OF  "FA"  REVERSE 
KEY  TELEGRAM  BY  MAUD 

Jak  baoaqeh  abes,  caoabev  kaw. 

Ship  by  American  Express  four  packages  unruled  writing  paper 
for  machine-writing  and  five  packages  envelopes,  business  size. 
Collect  on  delivery. 

The  same  in  natural  key: 

All  transportation  prepaid.  One  package  first  grade  and  two 
packages  third  grade.  Goods  shipped  to  Omaha  refused,  it  being 
claimed  they  are  not  as  represented. 

KEY  OF  "GA"  PROGRESSIVE 
KEY  TELEGRAM  BY  RUTH 

Kax  New  York  haibzo  Ajja  Hapelaja. 

The  passengers  have  arrived  by  .steamer  to  New  York  and  will 
leave  for  their  destination,  Wednesday,  October  16th,  1911,  at 
forty-five  minutes  after  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon. 

The  same  in  natural  key: 

What  shall  we  do  with  them?  New  York  forty-one  minutes  after 
six,  Saturday,  May  11,  1907. 


46  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

THE  COMPLEX  OR  ZIGZAG  KEYS* 

We  have  still  another  class  of  keys,  to  which  I  will  only  call  your 
attention  at  this  time.  You  will  find  no  difficulty  in  using  them, 
though  their  number  is  as  large  as  you  may  have  a  mind  to  make  it 
—that  is,  they  are  virtually  innumerable,  and  yet  very  simple  and 
easy  of  application. 

Suppose  your  telegram  consists  of  ten  words,  and  you  agree  to 
use  the  zigzag  key  of  "Da";  then  you  choose  your  code-words  on 
the  third  line  above  or  below  alternately.  The  first  word  may  be 
chosen  upon  the  third  line  above  or  below,  just  as  you  agree  between 
yourselves.  But  you  must  always  agree  upon  the  starting-point, 
whether  above  or  below  the  natural  line.  Then  zigzag  one  word 
above,  the  other  below,  the  third  again  above,  the  fourth  below, 
and  so  on. 

Then,  again,  you  may  agree  upon  the  natural  key  for  every  other 
word,  thus,  First  word  above,  the  second  upon  the  line,  the  third 
below,  the  fourth  upon  the  line,  the  fifth  above,  etc. 

These  Complex  or  Zigzag  Keys  are  so  numerous,  and  have  so  many 
variations,  that  no  exact  rules  can  be  laid  down;  nor,  indeed,  do  we 
want  any  rules.  These  suggestions  will  be  sufficient  to  enable  you 
to  study  them  and  to  use  them;  but  you  will  never  know  them  all. 

I  now  thank  you  for  close  attention,  diligent  study  and  excellent 
progress. 

These  sessions  have  been  very  pleasant  to  me.  I  shall  be  much 
pleased  to  hear  from  you  occasionally,  and  I  shall  follow  your  prog- 
ress and  development  with  unabated  interest. 

I  wish  you  all  success  in  life  and  much  happiness  in  being  useful 
and  doing  good.  Goodby. 

*  See  diagram  of  Keys  on  page]12. 


Code  Department 


The  following  twenty  code-words  are  thus  arranged  for  those  who 
are  using  the  Progressive  Keys  or  Reversed  Keys.  Correspondents 
agree  or  have  an  understanding  between  themselves  as  to  what  key 
to  use;  but  all  keys  are  used  in  accordance  with  the  following  rules: 

1.  The  Natural  Key  takes  the  word  designated. 

2.  The  Progressive  Key.      Count  downward  as  many  code- words 
as  are  designated  by  the  stipulated  key.     Always  commence  counting 
with  the  written  code-word.     For  example:     You  are  corresponding  in 
the  key  of  "Da,"  which  means  that  you  have  to  count  three  words, 
including  the  written  word,  downward.     Suppose,  then,  that  your 
intended  code-word  was  "Ka,"  you  would  count  ka,  la,  "Ma,"  the 
last  being  the  designated  code-word  for   you  to  notice  and  to  be 
directed  by. 

3.  The  Reverse  Key  is  precisely  the  opposite  to  the  Progressive 
Key.     You  count  upward,  and  the  written  code-word  is  to  be  counted 
as  the  first  one.     Thus,  if  your  key  is  "Ga,"  then  you  count  five. 
Suppose  the  written  code- word  to  be  "Pa,"  you  will  count  pa,  na, 
ma,  la,  "Ka,"  and  this  last  one  will  be  the  code  intended. 

In  this  simple  way  we  can  have  a  general  code  used  by  everybody, 
and  yet  everybody's  secret  code;  and  just  as  much  so  as  if  only  the 
two  correspondents  had  it  and  knew  about  it. 

These  Sham  Code-Words  are  thus  placed  at  the  beginning  to 
enable  correspondents  to  apply  keys  to  the  first  and  last  code  expres- 
sions, which  otherwise  they  could  not  do. 


SHAM 

Try  the  next  door,  please. 

April  fool. 

Labyrinth. 

Mistaken. 

Lost. 

Probing  into  our  secrets, 


Babb. 
Cabb. 
Dabb. 
Fabb. 
Gabb. 
Habb. 
hey? 

Jabb.     Wrong  key. 
Kabb.     400  keys;  which  one? 
Labb.     A  keyboard. 
Mabb.     Perplexity. 


CODE 

Nabb. 

Pabb. 

Qabb. 

Rabb. 

Sabb. 

Tabb. 

Vabb. 

Wabb. 

Xabb. 

Yabb. 


Bewilderment. 
Pitfall. 
Precipice. 
Ramble. 
Stumble. 
Tag. 
Amiss. 
Aimlessness. 
Failure. 
Despair. 


SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  CODE 

Ba.     ENGAGEMENTS  AND  MEETINGS 

Bab.  I  am  going  to  the  city (tomorrow), 

Bac.  I  went  to  the  (city) (yesterday). 

Bad.  I  will  cheerfully  do  the  thing  you  ask  of  me. 

Baf.  I  can  not  do  the  thing  you  asked  me  to  do. 


48  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

Bag.     Please  meet  me  at (state  place  and  time).* 

Bah.  I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  I  can  meet  you  at 
the  place  and  time  proposed. 

Baj.  I  regret  to  say  that  I  can  not  meet  you  at  the  time  and 
place  proposed. 

Bak.     I  regret  to  say  that  I  have  other  engagements. 

Bal.  I  propose as  the  place  and as  the 

time  for  our  meeting. 

Bam.     I  can  not  accommodate  you  for 

Ban.     I  can  not  meet  your  request. 

Bap.     CONTRACTING 

Baq.  Please  favor  me  (us)  with  an  opportunity  to  figure  on  your 
job. 

Bar.  Do  you  wish  figures  on  the  labor  alone,  or  on  material  and 
construction  in  the  same  bid? 

Bas.     Where  can  I  find  drawings  and  specifications? 

Bat.  Please  send  plans  and  specifications  to  me  by  express  at 
my  expense. 

Bav.  I  guarantee  first-class  workmanship,  grade  material 

and  satisfaction  in  all  particulars. 

Baw.  I  possess  facilities  for  efficient  and  speedy  performance  of 
any  and  all  obligations  involved  in  the  premises. 

Bax.  Sufficient  bond  or  security  for  faithful  performance  in  con- 
formity with  plans  and  specifications  will  be  cheerfully  furnished. 

Bay.     Plans  and  specifications  have  been  sent  to  you  by  express. 

Cab.     The  bids  will  be  opened (Jabelana). 

Cac.     Sir,  your  bid  has  been  accepted. 

Cad.     Sir,  your  bid  has  been  rejected. 

Caf.     Contract  and  bond  has  been  sent  you  by  mail  for  execution. 

Cag.     Contract  only  has  been  sent  for  your  signature. 

Cah.     When  will  you  begin? 

Caj.     I  shall  start  in  the 

Cak.  I  intend  to  come  to for  the  purpose  of  prep- 
aration. 

Cal.  Dear  Sir: — It  affords  me  much  pleasure  to  inform  you  that 
your  work  has  been  examined  and  approved.  For  your  encourage- 
ment and  recommendation,  it  shall  be  said  that  our  relationship  with 
you  has  been  the  pleasantest  from  beginning  to  finish.  Your  work 
as  well  as  material  are  in  all  respects  perfectly  satisfactory,  which 
indicates  that  you  and  those  under  your  supervision  are  honorable, 
conscientious,  reliable  gentlemen,  f 

*We  have  no  code  expression  for  locations  and  places,  but  we  have  for  time,  page  26. 

If  the  meeting-place  intended  is  Chicago,  you  write  first  the  code-word ^/k?1? 

designated,  then  the  name  of  the  place  of  meeting  and  follow  with  the  time,  as (Ala) 

Chicago,  Hatelana  maszo,  which  means,  Meet  me  in  Chicago  June  16th,  1911,  at  ten  o  clock 
in  the  forenoon. 

tThe  Scientific  Dial  Code  has  no  room  for  rogues  and  scoundrels.  They  should  be 
relegated  to  the  rear  as  soon  as  possible.  Dishonest,  lazy,  careless,  indifferent  men  and 
women  and  employers,  who  will  starve  and  maltreat  employes,  find  no  favor  with  us. 
They  belong  to  the  barbarism  of  bygone  ages,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  twentieth- 
century  Christianity  and  therefrom  resulting  civilization  will  eradicate,  weed  out  or  rather, 
in  kindness  steadfastness,  determination  and  unfaltering  loyalty  to  God  in  righteousness 
choke,  smother,  expunge  evil  tendencies  and  infuse  new  life,  lofty  aspirations,  and  divinely 
born  and  nurtured  ideals. 


Code  Department 


49 


Cam.     BUILDING    MATERIAL 


Can.     Steel  rails. 

Cap.     Steel  beams. 

Caq.  Standards ....  long  and 
...  .in  diameter  with.  .  .  .inches 
square  ground  face  and ....  upper 
face  plate  rest. 

Car.  Concrete  with  reinforce- 
ment. 

Cas.     Terra-cotta. 

Cat.     Braces  and  bracing. 

Cav.  Furnish ....  bolts  .... 
long  and ....  diameter. 

Caw.    Machine  bolts. 

Cax.     Common  bolts. 

Cay.  Furnish  (Mizza)  pounds 
of  (ma)  penny  nails. 

Dab.     Crushed  rock. 
Gravel. 
Gravel  to  be  sifted  and 


Dae. 
Dad. 

clean. 

Daf. 
kegs. 

Dag. 

Dah. 

Daj. 

Dak. 


Cement    in    barrels    or 

Cement  in  sacks. 
Lumber. 
Redwood. 
Pine. 


Dal.  Cedar. 

Dam.  Spruce. 

Dan.  Hemlock. 

Dap.  Sugar-pine. 

Daq.  Shingles. 

Dar.  Sheeting. 

Das.  Flooring. 

Dat.  Windows. 

Dav.  Doors. 

Daw.  Studding. 

Dax.  Joist. 

Day.  Sills. 

Fab.  Mudsills. 

Fac.  Underpinning. 

Fad.  Rafters. 

Faf.  Rustic. 

Fag.  Siding. 

Fah.  Tar  paper. 

Faj.  Roofing. 

Fak.  Lath. 

Fal.  Plastering. 

Fam.  Hard  finish. 

Fan.  Decorations. 

Fap.  Casing. 

Faq.  Moulding. 

Far.  Chimney. 


Fas.     PAINTING 


Fat. 

Fav. 

Faw. 

Fax. 

Fay. 

Gab. 

Gac. 

Gad. 

Gaf. 

Gag. 

Gaj. 

Gak. 

Gam. 

Gan. 

Gap. 

Gaq. 

Gar. 

Gas. 

Gat. 

Gav. 


Raw  linseed  oil. 
Boiled  linseed  oil. 
Oil  of  turpentine. 
Spirits  of  turpentine. 
White  lead. 
Yellow  ochre. 
Red  lead. 
Green      ) 

Yellow     [  Pigment. 
Blue 


Had.  Glass. 

Haf.  Putty. 

Hag.  Chalk. 

Hah.  Resin. 

Haj.  Coal  tar. 

Hak.  Pitch  tar. 

Hal.  Varnish. 


Gah.     HARDWARE 


Hinges. 
Mortise  lock. 
Latch  lock. 
Window  locks. 
Window  stops. 
Window  springs. 
Drawer  and  trunk  locks. 
Drawer  nobs  and  handles. 
Window  pulleys. 
Window  sash. 


Ham.     Hammer. 


Han. 

Hap. 

Haq. 

Har. 

Has. 

Hat. 

Hav. 

Haw. 

Hax. 


(See  next  page  for  balance  of  columns') 


Hatchet. 
Hand  ax. 
Wood  ax. 
Drawing  knife. 
Ripsaw. 
Cross  cut  saw. 
Brace  and  bits. 
Chisels. 
Steel  square. 


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A  camping  community  in  the  mountains  using  the  Scientific  Dial  Code  in  corresponding  with 

their  valley  homes. 


Gaw.  Metal  clothes  line. 

Gax.  Fiber  clothes  line. 

Gay.  Rope. 

Hab.  Bolts. 

Hac.  Nails. 


Hay.     Black  pipe. 

Jab.  Galvanized  pipe. 

Jac.  Well  casing. 

Jad.  Butcher  knife. 

Jaf.  Bread  knife. 


Jag.     SHIPMENTS 

(In  ordering  from  catalogues,  transform  numbers  into  Scientific 
Dial  Numerals,  which  is  very  easy). 

Jah.     Ship  by  freight. 

Jaj.     Ship  by  express. 

Jak.     Ship  by  American  Express  Company. 

Jal.     Ship  by  Wells  Fargo  Express  Company. 

Jam.     Ship  by  Adams  Express  Company. 

Jan.     All  transportation  charges  prepaid. 

Jap.     Transportation  charges  to  be  paid  by  receiver  on  arrival. 

Jaq.     Shipper  to  select  best  route  for  the  goods  ordered. 
.   Jar.     Ship  the  goods  to via 

Jas.     Goods  to  be  shipped  at  the  risk  of  the  shipper. 

Jat.     Goods  shipped  at  the  risk  of  the  receiver. 

Jav.     Goods  received  in  good  order. 

Jaw.     Goods  received  in  bad  order,  considerably  bruised. 


Code  Department  51 

Jax.     Some  broken  and  some  mutilated. 

Jay.  The  railroad  company  is  responsible,  submit  claim  for 
damage. 

Kab.  Have  goods  examined  by  station  agent  and  receive  his 
certificate  of  condition  of  all  the  goods,  send  same  together  with 
your  statement  to  our  house. 

Kac.  Always  carefully  examine  goods  before  accepting  them 
from  the  station  or  freight  office. 

Kad.  All  goods  are  carefully  examined  before  shipment  and  care- 
fully crated,  and  delivered  to  railroad  companies  and  express  com- 
panies in  perfect  condition  and  first-class  order. 

Kaf.  The  railroad  company  charged  me  extra  freight  to  the 
amount  of 

Kag.  Send  your  receipt  for  additional  freight  paid  by  you  to 
our  office  and  we  will  settle  with  the  railroad  company  and  return  to 
you  the  overcharge. 

Kah. 

Kaj.     F.  O.  B.  SHIPMENTS 

Kak.     We  ship  only  F.  0.  B. 

Kal.  A  deposit  of  $ must  be  made  in  the 

bank  before  loading. 

Kam.  Ship  a  carload  dried at per  pound. 

F.  O.  B. 

Kan.     Ship  a  carload ( Albertas)   at per  crate. 

Kap.     What  can  you  sell  us  dried (Muirs)  for  F.  O.  B ? 

Kaq.     What  can  you  sell for  by  crate  F.  O.  B ? 

Kar.     SHIPMENTS  C.  O.  D. 

Kas.     Collect  on  delivery. 

Kat.  Examination  of  goods  or  wares  before  acceptance  and  pay- 
ment allowed. 

Kav.  Goods  shipped  to refused  and  ordered  re- 
turned. 

Kaw.  Goods  shipped  to refused,  it  being  claimed 

that  they  are  not  as  represented. 

Kax.     What  shall  we  do  with  them? 

Kay.     We  are  awaiting  your  orders. 

Lab.  Goods  shipped  to at returned  as  per  your 

orders  and  direction  this 

Lac.     NOTICE  OF  ARRIVALS 

Lad.  Passengers  arrived  by  the  steamer  at will  leave  for 

their  destinations  by o'clock  the 

Laf .     Your  freight  has  arrived.     Freight  charges  are 

Lag.  Your  freight  still  remains  uncalled  for,  and  extra  charges 
will  be  made. 

Lah.  Your  baggage  has  come.  Extra  storage  charges  will  be 
made  48  hours  from  date  of  this  notice. 


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Lam.     FRUIT 

Lan.  Lemons. 

Lap.  Oranges. 

Laq.  Valencia  oranges. 

Lar.  Mediterranean  oranges. 

Las.  Navel  oranges. 

Lat.  Grapefruit. 

Lav.  Bananas. 

Law.     APPLES 
Lax.     Summer  apples. 


Lay. 
Lays. 


Fall  apples. 
Winter  apples. 

Mab.     PEARS 


Maj. 

Mak. 

Mai. 

Mam. 

Man. 

Map. 

Maq. 

Mar. 


Mac.  Summer  pears. 

Mad.  Fall  pears. 

Maf.  Winter  Nellis. 

Mag.'  Bartletts. 

Mah.     PLUMS 

Wickson  Plum. 
Burbank  Plum. 
Setzuma  plum. 
French  prunes. 
Sugar  prunes. 
Silver  prunes. 
Hungarian  prunes. 
Persimmons. 
Pomegranate. 

Mat.     VEGETABLES 

Mav.  Cabbage. 

Maw.  Cauliflower. 

Max.  Asparagus. 

May.  Lettuce. 

Nab.  Radish. 

Nac.  Parsnip. 

Nad.  Carrots. 

Naf.  Turnips. 

Nag.  Beets. 

Nah.  Egg-plants. 

Naj.  Celery. 

Nak.  Spinach. 

Nal.  Pineapple. 

Nam.  Tomatoes. 

Nan.  Cayenne  pepper. 

Nap.  Green  peas. 

Naq.  String  beans. 

ar.  Onions. 


Nas. 

Ripe  fresh  fruit. 

Nat. 

Dried  evaporated  fruit. 

Nav.     PEACHES 

Naw. 

Freestone. 

Nax. 

Clings. 

Nay. 

Early  Crawford. 

Pab. 

Foster. 

Pac. 

St.  John. 

Pad. 

Elberta. 

Paf. 

Susquehannah. 

Pag. 

Muir. 

Pah. 

Lovel. 

Paj. 

Salaway. 

Pak. 

Sellers  orange  cling. 

Pal. 

Elberta  cling. 

Pam. 

Phillips  cling. 

Pan. 

Heath  cling. 

Pap.     GRAPES 

Paq. 

Raisin  grapes. 

Par. 

Wine  grapes. 

Pas. 

Table  grapes. 

Pat.     BERRIES 

Pav. 

Dewberries. 

Paw. 

Raspberries. 

Pax. 

Loganberries. 

Pay. 

Blackberries. 

Qab. 

Mammoth  blackberries. 

Qac. 

Phenomenal  berries. 

Qad. 

Gooseberries. 

Qaf. 

Currants. 

Qag. 

Strawberries. 

Qah. 

Red  whortleberries. 

Qaj. 

Cranberries. 

Qak. 

Cloudberries. 

Qal.     NUTS 

Qam. 

Walnut. 

Qan. 

English  walnut. 

Qap. 

French  walnut. 

Qaq. 

Chestnut. 

Qar. 

Pecan. 

Qas. 

Hazelnut. 

Qat. 

Soft  shell  almonds. 

Qav. 

Papershell  almonds. 

Qaw. 

Hardshell  almonds. 

Qax. 

Bitter  almonds. 

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Qay.  Potatoes. 

Rab.  Sweet  potatoes. 

Rac.  Squash  and  pumpkins. 

Rad.  Watermelons. 

Raf.  Muskmelons. 

Rag.  Cantaloups. 

Rah.  Cucumbers. 

Raj.  Raisins. 

Rak.  Muscatel  raisins. 

Ral.  Malaga  raisins. 

Ram.  Thompson  seedless  rais- 
ins. 

Ran.  Seedless  Sultana  raisins. 

Rap.  Seeded  Muscatels. 

Raq.  Seeded  Malagas. 


Rar.     BARN 

Ras.     Hay  mow. 

Rat.     Stall. 

Rav.     Manger. 

Raw.     Halter. 

Rax.     Wagon  harness. 

Ray.     Carriage  harness. 

Sab.     Buggy  harness. 

Sac.     Bridle. 

Sad.     Lines. 

Saf.     Collar. 

Sag.     Hames. 

Sah.     Traces. 

Saj.     Saddle. 

Sak.     Girth. 

Sal.     Stirrup. 

Sam.     Spur. 


San.     FEED 

Sap.  Hay. 

Saq.  Clover. 

Sar.  Timothy. 

Sas.  Alfalfa. 

Sat.  Grain  hay. 

Sav.  Wheat  hay. 

Saw.  Barley  hay. 

Sax.  Oat  hay. 

Say.  Crushed  barley. 

Tab.  Bran. 

Tac.  Mill  feed. 

Tad.  Oil  cake. 


Taf.     GRAIN 

Tag.  Wheat. 

Tab.  Winter  wheat. 

Taj.  Spring  wheat. 

Tak.  Rye. 

Tal.  Barley. 
Tarn.     Oats. 

Tan.  Buckwheat. 

Tap.  Indian  corn. 

Taq.  Kafir  corn. 

Tar.     DOMESTIC  ANIMALS 

Tas.  Bull. 

Tat.  Cow. 

Tav.  Heifer. 

Taw.  Calf. 

Tax.  Steer. 

Tay.  Sheep. 

Vab.  Ram. 

Vac.  Ewe. 

Vad.  Lamb. 

Vaf.     GOAT 

Vag.  Billy  goat. 

Vah.  Nanny  goat. 

Vaj.  Kid. 

Vak.     HORSES 

Val.  Stallion. 
Vam.     Mare. 

Van.  Colt. 

Vap.  Mule. 

Vaq.  Ass. 

Var.  Dog. 

Vas.  Hens. 

Vat.  Chickens. 

Vav.  Cockerel. 

Vaw.  Pullet. 

Vax.  Duck,  Ducks. 

Vay.  Goose,  Geese. 

Wab.  Turkey,  Turkeys. 

Wac.  Dove. 

Wad.  Swine. 

Waf.  Boar. 

Wag.  Sow. 


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Wah.     Pig. 
Waj.     Hog. 

Wak.     DWELLING  HOUSE 


Wai. 

Warn. 

Wan. 

Wap. 

Waq. 

War. 

Was. 

Wat. 

Wav. 

Waw. 

Wax. 

Way. 

Xab. 

Xac. 

Xad. 

Xaf. 

Xag. 

Xah. 

Xaj. 

Xak. 

Xal. 

Xam. 

Xan. 

Xap. 


Room. 

Parlor. 
Sitting  room. 
Dining  room. 
Kitchen. 
Pantry. 
Porch. 
Veranda. 
Portico. 

Stairway. 
Upstairs. 
Bedroom. 
Bathroom. 
Closet. 
Toilet. 
Window. 
Bay  window. 
Attic. 
Cellar. 
Chimney. 
Stovepipe. 

Elbow. 

Heating  stove. 
Base  burner. 


Xaq.     KITCHEN  UTENSILS 


Xar. 

Xas. 

Xat. 

Xart. 

Xav. 

Xaw. 

Xax. 

Xay. 

Yab. 

Yac. 

Yad. 

Yaf. 

Yag. 

Yah. 

Yaj. 

Yak. 

Yal. 


Range. 

Reservoir. 

Waterfront. 

Kettle. 
Frying  pan. 

Skillet. 
Gridiron. 
Griddle. 
Tea  kettle. 
Coffee  pot. 
Teapot. 
Strainer. 
Breadpan. 
Dishpan. 
Sink. 
Pump. 
Hydrant. 


Yaq.  Center  table. 

Yar.  Kitchen  table. 

Yas.  Chair. 

Yat.  Rocking  chair. 

Yav.  Dining-room  chair. 

Yaw.  Sideboard. 

Yax.  China  closet. 

Yay.  Office  chair. 

Abab.  Front-room  set. 

Abac.  Bedroom  set. 

Abad.  Double  iron  bed. 

Abaf.  Single  iron  bed. 

Abag.  Lounge. 

Abah.  Sofa. 

Abaj.  Dresser. 

Abak.  Bureau. 

Abal.  Washstand. 
Abam.     Washbowl. 

Aban.  Chamber. 

Abap.  Carpets. 

Abaq.  Brussels  carpet. 

Abar.  Velvet  carpet. 

Abas.  Rug. 

Abat.  Curtains. 

Abav.  Roller  curtains. 
Abaw.     Lace  curtains. 
Abax. 
Abay. 

Acab.  PROVISIONS 


Acac. 

Acad. 

Acaf. 

Acag. 

Acah. 

Acaj. 

Acak. 

Acal. 

Acam. 

Acan. 

Acap. 

Acaq. 


Bread. 

Wheat  bread. 
Rye  bread. 
Graham  bread. 
Biscuits. 
A  loaf  of  bread. 
Crackers. 
Cookies. 
Gingersnaps. 
Snails. 
Doughnuts. 
Sandwiches. 


Acar.     BREAKFAST  FOOD 
Acas.     Wheat  flakes. 


Yam.     FURNITURE 
Yan.     Table. 
Yap.     Extension  table. 


Acat. 
Acav. 
Acaw. 
Acax. 


Corn  flakes. 
Oat  flakes. 
Rolled  oats. 
Germea. 


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Acay.     PIES 

Adab.  Apple  pie. 

Adac.  Peach  pie. 

Adad.  Pumpkin  pie. 

Adaf.  Custard  pie. 

Adag.  Mince  pie. 

Adaj.  Blackberry  pie. 

Adak.     PUDDING 

Adal.  Bread  pudding. 

Adam.  Custard  pudding. 

Adan.  Tapioca  pudding. 

Adap.  Rice  pudding. 

Adaq.     FISH 

Adar.  Salmon. 

Adas.  Sole. 

Adat.  Mackerel. 

Adav.  Herring. 
Adaw.     Trout. 

Adax.  Whitefish. 

Aday.  Cod. 

Afab.  Halibut. 

Afac.  Oysters. 

Afad.  Shrimp. 

Afaf.  Lobster. 

Afag.  Pike. 

Afah.  Perch. 

Afaj.  Bass. 

Afak.  Carp. 

Afal.  Catfish. 
Afam.     Eel. 

Afan.     CANNED  GOODS 

Afap.  Canned  tomatoes. 

Afaq.  Canned  peas. 

Afar.  Canned  string  beans. 

Afas.  Canned  sweet  corn. 

Afat.  Boston  beans. 

Afav.  Canned  peaches. 

Afaw.  Canned  pears. 

Afax.  Canned  apricots. 

Afay.  Canned  corned  beef. 

Agab.  Canned  ham. 

Agac.  Canned  dried  beef. 

Agad.     FLAVORS 

Agaf.  Vanilla. 
Agag.  Lemon. 
Agah.  Banana. 


Agaj.     Pineapple. 
Agak.     Strawberry. 
Agal.     Raspberry. 

Agam.     Flour. 

Agan.  Wheat  flour. 

Agap.  Rye  flour. 

Agaq.  Graham  flour. 

Agar.  Buckwheat  flour. 

Agas.  Corn  meal. 

Agat.  Rice. 

Agav.  Tapioca. 

Agaw.  Starch. 

Agax.  Corn  starch. 

Agay.     SUGAR 

Ahab.  Cane  sugar. 

Ahac.  Beet  sugar. 

Ahad.  Granulated  sugar. 

Ahaf .  Cube  sugar. 

Ahag.  Loaf  sugar. 

Ahah.  Dominoe  sugar. 

Ahaj.  Brown  sugar. 

Ahak.  Glucose. 

Ahal.     COFFEE 

Aham.  Java  coffee. 

Ahan.  Mocha  coffee. 

Ahap.  Green  coffee. 

Ahaq.  Roasted  coffee. 

Ahar.  Blended  coffee. 

Ahas.  Ground  coffee. 

Ahat.     TEA 

Ahav.     Ceylon  tea. 
Ahaw.     Japan  tea. 
Ahax.     Paraguay  tea. 
Ahay.     Kafta  tea. 
Amhab.     Hyson  tea. 
Amhac.     Gunpowder  tea. 
Amhad.     Green  tea. 
Amhaf.     Black  tea. 
Amhag.     Chinese  tea. 

Ajab.     DRINKS 

Ajac.  Water. 

Ajad.  Milk. 

Ajaf.  Buttermilk. 

Ajag.  Lemonade. 


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Ajah.     Soda-water. 
Ajaj.     Milk  soda. 
Ajak.     Egg  soda. 
Ajal.     Root  beer. 
Ajam.     Juniper  ale. 

Ajan.     VEHICLES 

Ajap.  Wagon. 

Ajaq.  Carriage. 

Ajar.  Buggy. 

Ajas.  Buggy  top. 

Ajat.  Buggy  shaft. 

Ajav.  Pole. 

Ajaw.  Cart. 

Ajax.  Automobile. 

A  jay.  Tourist  car. 

Akab.  Roadster. 

Akac.  Bicycle. 

Akad.     FARMING  UTENSILS 

Akaf.  Plow. 

Akag.  Plow  handle. 

Akah.  Mouldboard. 

Akaj.  Plowlay. 

Akak.  Gang-plow. 

Akal.  Sulky  plow. 

Akam.  Cultivator. 

Akan.  Harrow. 

Akap.  Seeder. 

Akaq.  Drill. 

Akar.  Manure  spreader. 

Akas.  Mower. 

Akat.  Sickle. 

Akav.  Rake. 

Akaw.  Hay  rake. 

Akax.  Reaper. 

Akay.  Selfbinder. 

Alab.  Scythe. 

Alac.  Handrake. 

Alad.  Shovel. 

Alaf.  Spade. 

Alag.  Hoe. 

Alah.  Pitchfork. 

Alaj.  Hayfork. 

Alak.  Carrier. 

Alal.  Track. 

Alam.  Wagon  tire. 

Alan.  Tire  setting. 

Alap.  Buggy  tires. 

Alaq.  Wheel. 


Alar. 

Alas. 

Alat. 

Alav. 

Alaw. 

Alax. 

Alay. 

Amab. 

Amac. 

Amad. 

Amaf. 

Amag. 

Amah. 

Amaj. 

Amak. 

Amal. 


Reach. 

Axle. 

Bolster. 

Tongue. 

Wagon  bed. 

Wagon  hayrack. 

Doubletree. 

Whiffletrees. 

Singletree. 

Hub. 

Spokes. 

Fellows. 

Kingbolt. 

Fore  hounds. 

Hind  hounds. 

Running  gear. 


Amam.     HUMANITY 


Aman. 

Amap. 

Amaq. 

Amar. 

Amas. 

Amat. 

Amav. 

Amaw. 

Amax. 

Almax. 

Amay. 

Almay. 

Anab. 

Anac. 

Anad. 

Anaf. 

Anag. 

Anak. 

Anaj. 

Anak. 

Anal. 

Anam. 

Anan. 

Anap. 

Anaq. 

Anar. 

Anas. 


Male. 
Female. 

Man. 
Women. 
Husband. 
Wife. 

Father. 

Mother. 

Son. 

Boy. 

Daughter. 

Girl. 
Child. 
Brother. 
Sister. 
Uncle. 
Aunt. 
Nephew. 
Niece. 
Cousin. 
Family. 
Relative. 
Relation. 
Ancestor. 
Generation. 
Offspring. 
Genealogy. 


Anat.  POLITICAL  DIVISIONS 

Anav.  Community. 

Anaw.  Township. 

Anax.  County. 


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Anay.  State. 

Apab.  Nation. 

Apac.  Village. 

Apad.  Town. 

Apaf.  City. 

Apag.  Ward. 

Apah.  Precinct. 

Apaj.     OFFICERS 

Apak.  President. 

Apal.  King. 

Apam.     Emperor. 

Apan.  Secretary  of  State,  Pre- 
mier. 

Apap.  Secretary  of  the  Interior. 

Apaq.  Secretary  of  War. 

Apar.  Secretary  of  the  Navy. 

Apas.  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Apat.  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

Apav.  Secretary  of  Commerce 

and  Labor. 

Apaw.  Attorney-General. 

Apax.  Postmaster-General. 

Apay.  Ambassador. 

Aqab.  Consul. 

Aqac.  Vice-Consul. 

Aqad.  Governor. 

Aqaf.  State  Secretary. 

Aqag.  Controller. 

Aqah.  Commission. 

Aqaj.  Senate. 

Aqak.  Assembly. 

Aqal.  Congress. 

Aqam.     Legislature. 

Aqan.  Senator. 

Aqap.  Assemblyman. 

Aqaq.  Council. 

Aqar.  Mayor. 

Aqas.  Alderman. 

Aqat.  Judge. 

Aqav.  Sheriff. 

Aqaw.  Court. 

Aqax.  Attorney. 

Aqay.  Plaintiff. 

Arab.  Defendant. 

Arac.  Witness. 

Arad.  Justice  court. 

Araf.  Superior  court. 

Arag.  Supreme  court. 

Arab.  Jury. 


Araj. 

Arak. 

Aral. 

Aram. 

Aran. 

Arap. 

Araq. 

Arar. 
Aras. 


Interpreter. 
Bailiff. 
Verdict. 
Guilty. 
Innocent. 
Sentence. 
Arrest. 
Bail. 
Prison. 
Penitentiary. 


Arat.  Supervisor. 

Arav.  County  Clerk. 
Araw.     Assessor. 

Arax.  Auditor. 

Aray.  Recorder. 
Arlay.     Engineer. 

Asab.     HUMAN  BODY 

Asac.  Head. 

Asad.  Forehead. 

Asaf.  Temple. 

Asag.  Brain. 

Asah.  Eyebrow. 

Asaj.  Eyelid. 

Asak.  Hair. 

Asal.  Ear. 
Asam.     Hear. 

Asan.  Nose. 

Asap.  Smell. 

Asaq.  Nostrils. 

Asar.  Eye. 

Asas.  See. 

Asat.  Tongue. 

Asav.  Taste. 

Asaw.  Throat. 

Asax.  Lungs. 

Asay.  Voice. 

Atab.  Breathing,   respiration. 

Atac.  Heart. 

Atad.  Arteries. 

Ataf.  Veins. 

Atag.  Circulation. 

Atah.  Blood. 

Ataj.  Lips. 

Atak.  Teeth. 

Atal.  Liver. 
Atam.     Kidneys. 

Atan.  Bladder. 

Atap.  Urin. 


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Ataq.  Womb. 

Atar.  Testicles. 

Atas.  Mouth. 

Atat.  Stomach. 

Atav.  Intestines. 

Ataw.  Colon. 

Atax.  Bile. 

Atay.  Digestion. 

Avab.  Hand. 

Avac.  Thumb. 

Avad.  Fingers. 

Avaf.  Fingernails. 

Avag.  Foot,  feet. 

Avah.  Toes. 

Avaj.  Shoulders. 

Avak.  Elbows. 

Aval.  Wrists. 

Avam.     Palm  of  the  hand. 

Avan.  Neck. 

Avap.  Breast. 

Avaq.  Back. 

Avar.  Loins. 

Avas.  Hip. 

Avat.  Thigh. 

Avav.  Knee. 

Avaw.  Skin. 

Avax.  Sweat. 

Avay.  Mastication. 

Awab.  Swallow. 

Awac.  Vomit. 

Awad.  Look. 

Awaf.  Cheek. 

Awag.  Chin. 

Awah.  Whiskers. 

Awaj.  Ankle. 

Awak.  Leg. 

Awal.  Arm. 

Awap.     MISCELLANEOUS 

Awaq.  Wages. 

Awar.  Salary. 

Awas.  Donation. 

Awat.  Business. 

Awav.  Strap. 
Awaw.     Rope. 

Awax.  Parasol. 

Away.  Umbrella. 

Axab.  Morning. 

Axac.  Evening. 

Axad.  Noon. 


Axaf.  Night. 

Axag.  Day. 

Axah.  Storm. 

Axaj.  Nonsense. 

Axak.  Nuisance. 

Axal.  Harm. 

Axam.  Danger. 

Axan.  Meal. 

Axap.  Tourist. 

Axaq.  Traveler. 

Axar.     CHURCH 

Axas.     Altar. 
Axat.     Pulpit. 
Axav.     Pews. 
Axaw.     Aisle. 
Axax.     Auditorium. 
Axay.     Gallery. 
Ayab.     Anteroom. 
Ayac.     Vestry. 
Ayad.     Usher. 
Ayaf.     Elder. 
Ayag.     Deacon. 
Ayah.     Trustee. 
Ayaj.     Singing. 
Ayak.     Choir. 
Ayal.     Quartette. 
Ayam.     Duet. 
Ayan.     Solo. 
Ayap.     Music. 
Ayaq.     Piano. 
Ayar.     Organ. 
Ayas.     Organist. 
Ayat.     Cornet. 
Ayav.     Flute. 
Ayaw.     Violin. 
Ayax.     Guitar. 
Ayay.     Singer. 
Alyay.     Instructor. 
Alia.     God. 
Almab.     Pastor. 
Almaib.     Church. 
Almac.     Congregation. 
Almaic.     Heaven. 
Almad.     Preaching. 
Almaf.     Sermon. 
Almag.     Praying. 
Almah.     Pleading. 
Almaj.     Beseeching. 
Almak.     Imploring. 


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Almal.     Worshiping.  Alnal. 

Almam.     Singing.  Alnam. 

Alman.     Revival.  Alnan. 

Almap.     Atonement.  Alnap. 

Almaq.     Converting.  Alnaq. 

Almar.     Forgiveness.  Alnar. 

Almas.     Thanksgiving.  Alnas. 

Almat.     Hallowing.  Alnat. 

Almav.     Baptism.  Alnav. 

Almaw.     Baptizing.  Alnaw. 

Almax.     Lord's  Supper.  Alnax. 
Almay.     Young  Men's  Christian     Alnay. 

Association.  Alpab. 

Alnab.     Epworth  League.  Alpac. 

Alnac.     Christian  Alliance.  Alpad. 

Alnad.     Sunday  School.  Alpaf. 
Alnaf.     Sunday  School  Superin-     Alpag. 

tendent.  Alpah. 
Alnag.     Sunday  School  Teacher.     Alpaj. 

Alnah.     Collection.  Alpak. 

Alnaj.     Subscription.  Alpaik. 
Alnak.     Offering. 


Tithe. 

Mission. 
Home  Mission. 
Foreign  Mission. 
Jewish  Mission. 
Jew. 

Christian. 
Catholic. 
Protestant. 

Heathen. 
Mohammedan. 
Buddha. 
Buddhism. 
Brahma. 
Brahminism. 
Infidel. 
Atheist. 
Agnostic. 
Sinner. 
Ungodly. 

Hell. 


Abeb.     STATIONERY 

Abec.  I  want  to  buy  some  writing  paper. 

Abed.  Very  good.     What  kind  do  you  want? 

Abef.  I  want  some  commercial  note  paper,  fairly  good. 

Abeg.  I  want  some  fancy  writing  paper  .  .  by .  .  size. 

Abeh.  Please  show  me  some  fancy  envelopes. 

Abej.  I  can  make  my  own  selection. 

Abek.  Legal  cap. 

Abel.  Fools  cap. 

Abem.     Common  letter  size. 

Aben.  Paper  that  is  ruled  for  pen-writing. 

Abep.  Paper  unruled  for  machine  writing. 

Abeq.  Envelopes,  letter  size. 

Aber.  Envelopes,  business  size. 

Abes.  First  grade. 

Abet.  Second  grade. 

Abev.  Third  grade. 

Abew.     Black  ink. 

Abex.  Red  ink. 

Abey.  Fountain  pen. 

Aceb.  Steel  pens. 

Acec.  Stub  pens. 

Aced.  Fine  pointed  pens. 

Acef.  Postage  stamps,  some  one-cent  and  some  two-cent. 

Aceh.  Carbon  paper. 

Acej.  Carbon  eraser. 


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Acek.     Library  paste. 
Acel.     Clips. 

Aceg.     GENTLEMEN'S  FURNISHING  DEPARTMENT 

Alceh.  Men's  Fine  Golf  Dress  Shirts. 

Alcej.  Men's  Fine  Soft  Dress  Shirts. 

Alcek.  Men's  Burgalines  Ties. 

Alcel.  Men's  Taus  in  hand  Ties. 

Acem.  Men's  Batwing  Ties. 

Acen.  Men's  Teck  Ties. 

Acep.  Star  Suspenders. 

Aceq.  President  Suspenders. 

Acer.  Men's  Fine  Hose. 

Aces.  Men's  Fine  Sox. 

Acet.  Men's  Fine  Ribbed  Underwear. 

Acev.  Men's  Fine  Balbriggan  Underwear. 

Acew.  Men's  All-Woolen  Underwear. 

Acex.  Men's  Heavy  and  Warm  Winter  Underwear. 

Acey.  Men's  Light  Summer  Underwear. 

Adeb.  Men's  Handkerchiefs. 

Adec.  Linen  Collar. 

Aded.  Celluloid  Collar. 

Adef.  Rubber  Collar. 

Adeg.  Standing  Collar. 

Adeh.  Turn  Down  Collar. 

Adej.  Men's  Every  Day  Shirt. 

Adek.  Overalls. 

Adel.  Jumpers. 

Adem.  Sweater. 

Aden.  Men's  Khaki  Pants  and  Jumpers. 

Adep.  Painters'  and  Carpenters'  Overalls. 

Adeq.     HAT  DEPARTMENT 

Ader.  Men's  Fine  Dress  Hats. 

Ades.  Men's  Vienna  Telescope. 

Adet.  Men's  Middy  Straw. 

Adev.  Men's  Mexican  Straw. 

Adew.  Men's  Peno  Straw. 

Adex.  Men's  Ventilated  Straw. 

Adey.  Men's  Derby  Hats. 

Afeb.  Men's  Soft  Wide  Brim  Hats. 

Afec.  Men's  Warm  Winter  Caps. 

Afed.  Men's  Utility  Automobile  Caps. 

Afef.     MEN'S  MISCELLANEOUS 
Afeg.     Suit  Cases. 
Afeh.     Club  Bags. 
Afej.     Telescopes. 


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Afek.  Razor. 

Afel.  Shaving  Soap. 
Afem.     Shaving  Brush. 

Afen.  Shaving  Mirror. 

Afep.  Shaving  Outfit. 

Afeq.  Safety  Razor. 

Afer.  Shaving  Mug. 

Afes.     LADIES'  FURNISHING 

Afet.  Ladies'  Underwear. 

Afev.  Ladies'  Pants  and  Vest. 

Afew.     Ladies'  Fine  Rib  Union  Suits. 

Afex.  Ladies'  Close  Fitting  Elastic  Union  Suits. 

Afey.  Ladies'  Light  Weight  Summer  Garments. 

Ageb.  Corset. 

Agec.  Corset  Cover. 

Aged.  Ladies'  Gowns. 

Agef.  Ladies'  Hose. 

Ageg.  Petticoat. 

Ageh.     Kimono. 

Agej.  Wrapper. 

Agek.  Garters. 

Agel.  Children's  Underwear. 


Agem.     DRYGOODS 

Agen.  Dress  Patterns. 

Agep.  Silk. 

Ageq.  All-wool  Broadcloth. 

Ager.  Cheviot. 

Ages.  Finest  all-wool  Heavy  Serge. 

Aget.  Diagonal  Weave  Worsted  Suiting. 

Agev.  All  Wool  Basket  Weave  Suiting. 

Agew.     Ginghams. 

Agex.  Prints. 

Agey.  Outing  Flannels. 

Aheb.  Muslin. 

Ahec.  Cambric. 

Ahed.  Sheeting. 

Ahef.  Tubing. 

Aheg.  Silk  Taffeta  Ribbons. 

Aheh.     SHOE  DEPARTMENT 

Ahej.  The  Brown  Shoe  Company,  and  Watson  Plummer. 

Ahek.  White  House  Shoe  for  men — Zy — Da,  Daim,  Fa,  Ga. 

Ahel.  Watson  Shoes — Zy — Daim,  Fa,  Faim,  G. 
Ahem.     Men's  Ox.  Patent  Sea  and  Gun  Metal — Zy — Da,  Daim,  Fa. 


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Ahen.     MEN'S  EVERY  DAY  SHOES 

Ahep.  Sunset  welts — Zy — Fa. 

Aheq.  Light  weight  Borded  Kangaroo  Blue — Zy — Daig. 

Aher.  Olive  Glove  Blue — Dazzy. 

Ahes.  Borded  Vici  — Dazzy. 

Ahet.  Olive  Glove  Bike  Blue — Caimzy. 

Ahert.  Boys'  Olive  Glove  Bike  Blue — Caimzy. 

Ahev.  Men's  Brown  Kroshew  Blue — Daimzy. 

Ahew.  Men's  Tan  Purside  Blue — Caoszy. 

Ahex.  Blue  Ribbon  Shoes  for  boys  and  girls. 

Ahey.     LADIES'  FINE  DRESS  SHOES 

Ajeb.  Patent  Sea  Blue — Zy — Da,  Daeg,  Daim,  Daos,  Fa. 

Ajec.  Was  Kid  Blue — Zy — Caeg,  Cairn,  Da,  Daim. 

Ajed.  Was  Gun  Metal  Blue— Zy — Cairn,  Da,  Daim,  Fa. 

Ajef.  Was  Pat.  Pumps — Zy — Caeg,  Cairn,  Da,  Daim. 

Ajeg.  Was  Pat.  Sea  Oxf. — Zy — Cairn,  Da,  Daim. 

Ajeh.  Was  Kid  Oxf.  Pumps — Zy — Cairn,  Da,  Daim. 

Ajej.  Ladies'  Noiseless  Juliet — Zy — Baeg,  Bairn,  Baos. 

Ajek.  Misses'  Shoes — Gun  Metal,  Kid,  Pat.  Sea — Zy — Bairn,  Baos, 
Ca,  Caeg. 

Ajel.  Girls'  Shoes— Gun  Metal,  Kid,  Pat.  Sea— Zy— Caeg,  Cairn. 

Ajem.  Youths'  Shoes— Gun  Metal— Pat.  Sea— Zy— Baos,  Ca, 
Caeg. 

Ajen.  Boys'  Shoes — Gun  Metal  and  Pat.  Sea,  Oxf— Zy — Caeg, 
Cairn,  Caos 


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TRAVELERS'   CODE 

Ajep.     AT  THE  RAILROAD  STATION 

^ 

Ajeq.  Railroad  ticket. 

Ajer.  How  much  for  first-class  ticket  to 

Ajes.  How  much  for  second-class  ticket  to 

Ajet.  How  much  for  third-class  ticket  to 

Ajev.  Sleeping  car,  lower  berth. 

Ajew.  Sleeping  car,  upper  berth. 

Ajex.  Tourist  car;  lower  berth. 

Ajey.  Tourist  car,  upper  berth. 

Akeb.  Please  check  my  trunk. 

Akec.  Please  check  my  telescope  and  valise. 

Aked.  May  I  take  the  chair  car? 

Akef.  Yes,  if  you  have  first-class  ticket. 

Akeg.  JLet  me  see  your  ticket. 

Akeh.  I  have  lost  my  ticket. 

Akej.  No,  you  have  only  second-class  ticket. 

Akek. 

Akel.  Take  second-class  car. 

Akem.  Take  third-class  car. 

Aken.  Please  show  me  my  car. 

Akep.  Smoking  is  allowed  only  in  the  smoking  car. 

Akeq.  Come,  I  will  show  you  your  car. 

Aker.  You  may  have  this  seat. 

Akes.  Is  there  a  ladies'  toilet  in  or  at  this  station? 

Aket.  Is  there  a  gentlemen's  toilet  at  or  in  this  station? 

Akev.  Where  is  the  toilet,  please? 

Akew. 

Akex.     ON  THE  TRAIN 

Akey.  How  far  is  it  to ? 

Aleb.  What  time  will  this  train  arrive  at ? 

Alec.  Is  there  a  dining  car  attached  to  this  train? 

Aled.  Yes,  in  the  rear  of  the  train. 

Alef.  How  much  for  meals  in  the  dining  car? 

Aleg.  No,  this  train  stops  at  dining  stations  for  meals. 

Aleh.  How  long  does  this  train  stop  for  meals? 

Alej.  This  train  stops  twenty  or minutes  for  meals. 

Alek.  Please  show  me  the  dining  room. 

Alel.  Where  may  I  find  the  lunch  counter? 

Alem.  What  will  you  have,  Madam? 

Alen.     AT  THE  LUNCH  COUNTER 

Alep.      Ham  sandwich,  apple  pie  and  coffee. 

Aleq.      Eggs,  bread  and  butter,  sausage,  rice  pudding,  tea  or  coffee. 

Aler.       Oyster  soup  and  crackers. 


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Ales.  Ham  and  eggs. 

Alet.  Bacon  and  eggs. 

Alev.  Soft  boiled  eggs. 

Alew.  Omelet. 

Alex.  Shredded  wheat  biscuits  and  cream. 

Aley.  Cornflakes  and  cream. 

Ameb.  Grapenuts  and  cream. 

Amec.  Cocoa. 

Amed.  Bread,  butter,  and  cheese. 

Amef.  Cream. 

Ameg.  Butter. 

Ameh.  Cheese. 

Amej.  Ice  cream  soda — pineapple  flavor. 

Amek.  Coffee. 

Amel.  Tea. 

Amem.  How  much  is  my  bill? 

Amen.  Hurry  up  or  your  train  will  leave  you. 

Amep.  Which  one  is  my  train? 

Ameq.  Where  are  you  going?     Show  your  ticket. 

Amer.  I  am  going  to 

Ames.     CHANGE  OF  CARS 

Amet.  Will  I  have  to  change  cars? 

Amev.  Conductor:    Yes,  I  will  keep  you  informed. 

Amew.  Conductor:  No,  this  train  will  take  you  to  your  destina- 
tion. 

Amex.  How  long  will  I  have  to  wait  at  the  exchange  station? 

Amey.  If  the  other  train  is  on  time,  only (Aszo — 15  min.) 

Aneb.  I  want  a  train  for 

Anec.  *  Which  side  of  the  depot  will  my  train  come  in  on? 

Aned.  I  notice  a  number  of  tracks;  on  which  track  may  I  find  my 
train? 

Anef.  In  what  direction  is from  here? 

Aneg.  When  is  the  train  due  to  arrive  there? 

Aneh.  Please  favor  me  with  a  time-table. 

Anej.  Your  train  will  come  in  on  the track. 

Anek.  Which  way  will  it  be  heading? 

Anel.  It  will  head  in  that  direction  ( Here  point  the  direction) . 


Anem.     FINDING  DESTINATION 

Anen.  Please  direct  me  to  No on street. 

Anep.  What  street-car  will  take  me  to  No on street? 

Aneq.  Take  this  car  and  show  your  address  to  the  Conductor,  he 
will  let  you  off  at  the  right  place. 

Aner.  Please  tell  me  how  to  find  No on street. 

Anes.  Street-car. 

Anet.  Street. 

Anev.  Block. 


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Anew.  South. 
Anex.  North. 
Aney.  East. 
Alney.  West. 

Apeb.     LIVERY  STABLE 

Apec.  Furnish  me  rig  and  driver  to  bring  me  to  Mr 

Aped.  One-horse  rig. 

Apef.  Two-horse  rig;  carriage. 

Apeg.  How  will  I  find  an  expressman  to  bring  my  baggage  out? 

Apeh.  I  want  my  baggage  today. 

Apej.  Checks. 

Apek.  Hand  me  your  baggage  checks. 

Apel.  Here  you  have  my  baggage  checks. 

Apem.  Bring  my  baggage  to 

Apen.  What  time  may  I  expect  my  baggage? 

Apep.  I  must  have  my  baggage  before o'clock. 

Apeq. 

Aper.         AT  THE  GARAGE 

Apes.    Please  take  me  to 

Apet.    Can  you  carry  my  baggage  or  grip  also? 

Apev.   Baggage. 

Apew.  Luggage. 

Apex.   Knapsack. 

Aqeb.   Trunk. 

Aqec.    Bundle. 

Aqed.   Package. 

Aqef.  Tools. 

Aqeg.   Toolchest. 

Aqeh.   How  can  I  get  my brought  out? 

Aqej.    What  will  be  your  charge  for  taking  me  (us) Persons 

to 

Aqek.     CHARGES 

Aqel.    Our  charge  is per  passenger  per  mile. 

Aqem.  Our  charge  is per  passenger  per  hour. 

Aqen.   Our  charge  is per  day. 

Aqep.   Our  charge. 
Aqer.    Per  passenger. 
Aqes.    Per  hour. 
Aqet.    Per  mile. 
Aqev.   Per  day. 
Aqew.  Per  week. 

Aqex.     COMMUNICATION 

Aqey.   My  baggage  has  gone  astray  or  been  left  behind. 

Areb.    Have  my  baggage  and  appendage  forwarded  to 

Arec.    The  number  of  my  baggage  checks  are 


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Ared.    My  baggage  consists  of pieces,  as  follows: 

Aref.    I  have  a  tourist  ticket  good  for days. 

Areg.  I  bought  my  ticket  at (state  date  and  number  of 

ticket,  also  the  name  of  Railroad  Company  purchased  from,  as : .  . 
Southern  Pacific,  dapo  (372),  Fapelana  (April  12,  1911). 

Areh.    I  need dollars,  which  send  to  me  at 

Arej.    Send  the  money  due  me  before  Hamelana  (June  10th,  1911). 

Arek.  Turn  all  money  due  me  over  to  my  wife  and  she  will  give  you 
receipt  for  the  same. 

Arel.  Send  your  promissory  note  to  the  bank  at and  I  (we) 

will  make  payment  as  agreed. 

Arem.  Payment  on  your  contract  of  Lapaszy  ($912.15)  will  become 
due  Kapelana  (August  12th,  1911). 

Aren.   I  have  sent  payment  in  the  sum  of as  agreed. 

Arep.  I  have  sent  payment  in  the  sum  of as  stipulated  in 

contract. 

Areq.  I  have  received  payment  from  you  in  the  sum  of , 

the  receipt  of  which  is  hereby  acknowledged  (signed ) . 

Arer.  I  have  received  payment  from  (here  write  name  of  payer) 
in  the  sum  of the  receipt  of  which  is  hereby  acknowl- 
edged, being  payment  in  full  to  date  Payee. 

Ares.    Received  from (Payer)   (Payee) . 

Aret. 

Arev.    Payment  in  full. 

Arew.  Payment  in  part. 

Arex.    Payment  on  contract. 

Arey.    Payment  on  promissory  note. 

Arley.  Payment  on  account. 


Aseb.     CORRESPONDENCE 

Asec.  My  trip  has  been  very  pleasant  in  every  way.  I  arrived 
safely  at  (New  York,  July  12th  at  8:15  o'clock  in  the  morning) 
Japelana  Kaszo. 

Ased.    A  number  of  friends  met  me  at  the  station. 

Asef.    My  health  has  been  poor. 

Aseg.    I  have  felt  miserable. 

Aseh.   I  am  suffering  from 

Asej.    Chills. 

Asek.   Headache. 

Asel.    Fever. 

Asem.  Toothache. 

Asen.    Sick  in  bed. 

Asep.    Have  been  taken  to  the Hospital. 

Aseq.    Health  improving. 

Aser.    Doctor  says  I  will  soon  be  able  to  resume  my  business. 

Ases.    I  am  able  to  be  around  and  will  be  at  my  post  in  a  few  days. 

Aset.    I  am  just  all  right  and  in  best  of  spirits. 

Asev.  I  hope  to  be  able  to  return  home  in  (Amazza — 10  days)  if  all 
goes  well. 


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Asew.  My  business  has  been  very  poor  and  work  very  hard,  prof- 
its small. 

Asex.  My  business  has  been  just  excellent;  good  sales,  good 
profit,  good  standing,  better  reputation. 

Asey.  I  hope  to  hear  from  you  with  a  heap  of  news  to  meet  me  at 
,  where  I  will  stop  for days. 

PAPA'S  KISSES 

Ateb.     Say,  dear,  don't  forget  to  kiss and  baby .... 

times  for  me  and  say  to  them  that  these  are  papa's  kisses,  and  have 
been  sent  to  them  by  telegraph,  and  then  explain  to  them  what  the 
telegraph  is  and  how  it  works — won't  you,  sweetheart,  please. 

LOVELY  TELEGRAMS 

Atec.     Dearest  hubby,  thank  you  a  thousand  times  for  all  these 

loving  and  lovely  telegrams.     I  have  explained  it  all  to 

and  the  baby;  and  they  looked  so  intensely  interested  that  I  am  sure 
the  seed  fell  into  good,  acceptable,  deep  and  fertile  soil,  and  will 
bring  forth  an  abundant  golden  harvest  to  the  great  satisfaction 
and  enjoyment  of  dear,  loving  papa,  in  due  season.  In  return  they, 
one  and  all,  send  papa  filial  embraces  and  kisses  innumerable. 


HUGGING  AND  KISSING  BY  TELEGRAPH 
AN  AMUSING  STORY 

Ated.     Dearest  ,  I  have  something  very  amusing  to 

relate.  It  is  with  reference  to  the  hugging,  embracing  and  kissing 
processes  by  telegraph.  (Irene)  has  been  studying  about  it  all  day 
without  finding  out  exactly  how  to  hug  and  kiss  papa  by  telegraph. 
She  fancies  that  some  little  girl,  just  like  her,  would  appear  at  the 
other  end  of  the  line,  just  as  she  sees  herself  in  the  mirror,  hugging 
and  kissing  papa  just  the  way  she  hugged  and  kissed  papa's  photo- 
graph. I  could  not  afford  to  disturb  or  mar  her  childish  enjoyment, 
so  I  said,  "all  right,  but  if  you  will  hug  this  message  by  pressing  it  hard 
to  your  little  heart,  and  also  kiss  it,  then  we  will  send  it  to  darling, 
loving  papa,  and  he  will  feel  your  little  hands  and  arms  patting  him 
and  hugging  him  and  your  soft  and  warm  little  lips  kissing  him."  So 
all  the  children  went  at  it ;  and  this  message,  and  every  other  message 
we  send  you,  will  contain  the  loving  filial  embraces  and  kisses  innu- 
merable from  our  little  angel-like  loving  and  lovely  children,  and  last, 
but  not  the  least,  from  your  devoted  loving  and  longing  lifemate. 
You  cannot  but  feel  their  patting,  caressing,  hugging  and  kissing  at 
this  very  moment,  while  reading  this  message.  Let  darling  baby 
have  his  inning  first,  then , , ,  .... 


in  their  order,  or  wrap  them  all  in  your  parental  embrace,  while  little 
arms  will  clasp  your  neck  like  the  tender  vine  the  sturdy  oak;  and, 
darling,  give  anxious  me_also  a  chance  at  you,  won't  you? 


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HOME  SWEET  HOME;  No  PLACE  LIKE  HOME 

Atef.  Dearest  darling  wife  and  lovely  little  tots — and  all  of  you. 
I  thank  you  most  sincerely  for  the  tender,  affectionate  and  charming 
messages.  Your  caressing,  hugging  and  kissing  message  became  so 
real  to  me  that  I  was  brought  into  ecstasy.  I  certainly  felt  the  little 
arms  and  hands  clasp  me  around  my  neck,  and  the  sweet  kisses — oh, 
I  esteem  it  all  of  greater  value  than  the  wealth  and  glory  of  the  whole 
world.  Home,  sweet  home.  No  place  like  home.  I  appreciate  more 
and  more  the  inestimable  treasure  and  priceless  jewels  I  have  in  a 
dear,  sweet,  lovely,  devoted  wife,  and  under  motherly  tenderness 
and  affectionate  training  this  divine  endowment,  our  lovely  children. 
Every  word  from  you  adds  fuel  to  the  fire  of  love  and  devotion  in  my 
heart  which  you  are  entitled  to  and  so  well  deserve. 

NOTHING  MYSTERIOUSLY  VEILED  OR  HIDDEN 

Ateg.  Darling  wife,  let  me  tell  you  something.  It  isn't  your  face, 
though  handsome,  it  isn't  your  voice,  though  sweet,  it  isn't  the  form 
of  your  body,  though  graceful — not  one  of  these  nor  all  of  these 
that  make  you  as  a  woman  so  lovely  and  attractive — it  is  your  entire 
being,  your  personality,  your  soul;  nothing  in  you  or  of  you  myste- 
riously veiled  or  hidden.  There  isn't  another  woman  in  all  the  world 
that  would  or  could  be  for  me  what  you  are.  Dearest  darling  sweet- 
heart, more  so  now  than  ever  before,  I  notice  a  certain  anxiety  or 


Our  home  and  our  guests. 


Code  Department  69 

uneasiness  about  me,  in  some  of  your  letters  and  messages.  I  there- 
fore give  you  this  testimony  and  assurance  of  my  heart's  feeling 
toward  you  and  my  appreciation  of  you.  Should  I  in  any  way 
prove  to  be  unfaithful  to  you,  the  lowest,  most  agonizing  and  horrible 
place  in  hell  would  be  too  good  for  me.  Your  so  frequent  messages 
of  love  while  I  am  away,  and  your  most  charming  attention  and 
entertainment  when  at  home  are  mighty  influences  for  good  and  a 
help — I  might  say  a  shield  against  temptations  and  the  mixing  in 
with  evil  associates. 

Atbeb.     TOUCHED,  AND  PLAYED  ON  NERVE-STRINGS 

Atbec.  Dearest,  loveliest,  darling  hubby!  Your  charming  tele- 
gram letter  from  Baltimore of  the  Jafelana  has  touched 

and  played  on  every  nerve-string  in  my  whole  being.  But  I  have 
been  misunderstood  in  one  respect,  and  I  hasten  to  make  correction. 

Atbed.  Have  I  been  so  careless  in  my  communication  with  you, 
so  ambiguous,  as  to  impress  upon  your  mind  and  heart  the  taint  of 
jealousy  of  you  on  my  part?  Dearest,  loveliest  darling,  mine,  how 
could  you  ever  think  of  me  as  being  so  foolish,  so  narrow-minded,  of 
so  small  a  caliber  as  that?  No,  dearest,  not  the  slightest  feeling, 
not  the  remotest  fathom  of  thought  in  that  direction  have  disturbed 
my  entire  and  absolute  confidence  in  you. 

Atbef.  Now,  darling,  if  you  have  the  same  confidence  in  me, 
you  will  accept  my  denunciation  and  brush  away  the  last  vestige 
of  that  mist  of  misapprehension  which  carries  with  it  a  deadly 
poison. 

Atbeg.  This  matter  disposed  of,  I  want  to  thank  you  a  thousand 
times  for  that  sweet  and  assuring  letter;  and  if  I  had  you  here  with 
me  at  this  moment  I  would  convince  you  of  my  earnestness  and  sin- 
cerity in  a  very  effective  manner.  But  I  realize  that  hugs  and 
kisses  become  stale  on  the  way  at  so  long  a  distance;  and  yet,  this 
letter  has  felt  the  beating  of  my  heart  and  the  impressions  of  my  lips 
and  has  been  dampened  by  my  tears  so  much  that  I  could  hardly 
finish  writing  it;  but  the  genuine  articles  are  stored,  awaiting  the 
sweetest  and  loveliest  darling  hubby  in  all  the  world  on  his  arrival 
home. 

Atbeh.  It  is  the  many  accidents  which  we  hear  and  read  about 
which  makes  me  uneasy.  I  many  times  wonder  if  I  am  ever  to  see 
you  alive  any  more.  You  will  realize  that  there  are  many  wives 
who  kiss  their  husbands  goodby  for  the  last  time,  when  they  start 
out  on  a  journey.  Every  day  some  wife  sees  her  husband  for  the 
last  time  alive,  to  have  him  brought  home  mutilated  or  dead. 

Atbej.  Oh,  that  I  could  keep  you  at  home  all  the  time.  Can't 
we  start  some  kind  of  business  or  something  of  our  own?  I  would 
go  on  a  farm  or  any  place  with  you  if  I  could  only  keep  you  at  home. 

Atbek.  I  have  thought  of  a  cheaper  cottage  or  flat  to  live  in,  so 
that  we  may  save  something  in  house  rent. 

Atbel.  I  don't  care  how  simple  it  is,  only  so  that  we  can  get  along. 
For  the  luxury  indulged  in  while  we  are  yet  young  will  afford  small 
consolation  in  old  age. 


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Atbem.  I  don't  know  whether  you  have  ever  noticed  that  I  have 
made  use  of  and  remodeled  our  old  clothes  for  the  children.  I  made 
a  jacket  for  Charley  out  of  an  old  coat  of  yours  the  other  day,  and 
you  ought  to  have  seen  how  proud  he  was  in  the  clothes  that  mother 
had  made  for  him. 

Atben.  I  have  figured  out  that  I  saved  at  least  thirty-five  dollars 
last  spring  in  this  way. 

Atbep.  I  am  also  studying  and  experimenting  about  making  our 
provisions  reach  further  than  usual.  I  find  that  we  can  dispense 
with  a  number  of  things  or  use  them  for  a  better  purpose  than  for- 
merly, and  our  health  has  improved  by  doing  it. 

Atbeq.  So,  for  instance,  in  the  selection  and  use  of  fruits  and  nuts. 
You  know  how  we  used  to  serve  these  after  we  had  finished  our 
meals,  often  overloading  our  stomachs  and  causing  flatulence,  drowsi- 
ness and  sometimes  headaches. 

Atber.  Now  I  use  fruits  and  nuts  as  a  part  of  our  meals,  dimin- 
ishing largely  all  kinds  of  meats  and  flesh  foods,  and  you  have  no 
idea  how  much  may  be  saved  to  benefit  both  the  purse  and  the 
stomach. 

Atbes.  Arrange,  if  possible,  to  stay  at  home  with  me  at  least 
two  weeks  on  your  next  turn.  I  really  believe  that  we  can  live 
together  from  this  on,  maintain  our  family  and  raise  and  educate 
our  children  respectably,  either  by  starting  a  business  in  a  small 
way  in  town  or  by  going  out  on  a  small  farm. 

Atbet.  I  see  other  people  not  so  well  equipped  as  we  are  doing  it; 
why  should  not  we  be  able  to  do  just  as  well? 

Atbev.  This  would  at  once  relieve  me  from  this  continuous 
anxiety  about  your  safety. 

Atbew.  All  the  children  send  you  their  greetings  with  hugs  and 
kisses  in  the  usual  way,  and  they  all  want  to  know  how  soon  their 
darling  papa  is  coming  home. 

Lovingly, 
UPERVILLE,  ALA.,  JAHELANA.  AMALIA. 

Atbex.     THE  CRIMINAL 

Atbey.  Dearest,  loveliest  sweetheart.  Your  admirable  telegram 
of  Jahelana  has  made  a  miserable  criminal  out  of  me. 

Atceb.  You  propose  to  move  into  cheaper  quarters  to  save  house- 
rent;  you  are  working  over  and  remodeling  old  clothes  of  ours  for 
the  children  to  save  money;  you  are  even  extending  your  economy 
to  your  table  in  order  to  prepare,  as  I  now  understand  it,  a  fund  for 
the  starting  of  business  of  our  own  of  some  kind ;  and 

Atcec.  In  the  meantime  I  have  been  squandering  money  by 

burning  it  in  the  form  of  cigars  for oh,  I  am  ashamed  to  confess 

it. 

Atced.  Thoughtlessly  have  I  thrown  a  quarter,  a  half-dollar, 
sometimes  a  dollar  to  the  cigar  dealer  for  cigars;  and  this  has  often 
happened  several  times  a  day.  I  have  been  in  the  habit  of  carrying 
some  change  loose  in  my  pockets,  never  paying  any  attention  to 
how  much  or  how  used. 


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Atcef.  Your  admirable  telegram  of  Jahelana  has  awakened  me 
as  from  a  dream,  and  I  now  find  that  my  cigar  account  runs  up  to 
something  like  $12.50  per  week,  or  $600  per  year.  These  figures 
are  now  accusing  me,  burning  me,  almost  murdering  me;  for  they 

have  created  in  me  a  craving,  a  passion; they  have  chained  me 

in  slavery. 

Atceg.  I  have  now  commenced  a  fight  for  freedom,  a  struggle, 
the  equal  I  have  never  had  any  apprehension  of.  But  I  am  going 
to  win  out.  Your  matchless  modesty,  prudence,  example,  and  pray- 
ers give  me  the  strength  and  unfaltering  determination. 

Atceh.  When  I  married  you,  I  knew  I  had  found  a  fine  silver 
mine;  later,  I  found  it  to  be  a  very  rich  gold  mine;  now,  the  shaft 
having  been  sunk  still  deeper,  I  have  discovered  in  it  a  mine  of  silver, 
gold  and  precious  stones  in  combination.  May  God  ever  bless  your 
pure  and  precious  soul ;  and  I  know  that  I  am  being  blessed  for  your 
sake. 

Atcej.  Well,  darling  sweetheart,  I  will  make  arrangement  to  stay 
at  home — with  you.  You  may  look  for  me  in  ten  days. 

Atcek.     Submissively  and  lovingly  yours  forever, 

FLOYD. 

Atcel.     THE  WELCOME 

Atcem.  Dearest  hubby.  Just  a  few  lines  in  acknowledgment  of 
your  lovely  and  most  welcome  telegram  of  Japelana.  It  has  made 
me  so  exceedingly  happy  that  I  can  hardly  write  for  joy.  I  have 
asked  myself  all  the  morning:  "Is  it  a  reality  or  only  a  deceptive 
dream?"  Oh,  thank  God,  it  is  a  reality,  a  real  reality; — more  good 
for  me  than  I  ever  dared  to  expect.  Blessed  be  the  Lord.  Welcome 
home,  darling,  dear. 

Lovingly,  AMALIA. 


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TRAVELERS'  CODE,  BY  STEAMER 

Atleg.  I  am  going  by  steamer  to 

Ateh.    I  have  nothing  subject  to  duty. 

Atej.     The  baggage  contains  nothing  but  my  personal  traveling 
outfit  and  a  few  .small  presents. 

Atek.    I  have  succeeded  in  locating  all  but  one  of  my  trunks. 

Atel.     Officer,  will  you  kindly  direct  me?  my  trunk  is  marked 
(A.  H.)  on  the  lid  *. 

Atem.     My  trunk  ought  to  be  in  section (H). 

Aten.      No,  I  have  not  been  to  section (A). 

Atep.      You  think  it  must  be  there? 

Ateq.      Thank  you,  I  hope  you  will  find  it. 

Ater.      There  it  is  now,  just  coming  from  the  steamer. 

Ates.       My  baggage  is  all  examined;  will  you  please  check  it  for  me? 

Atet.       I  am  going  to (Du  Nord) ,  and  will  have  the 

baggage  sent  for  in (an  hour,  "Bazzo"). 

Atev.      Is  this  the (Grand  Hotel)  omnibus? 

Atew.     What  are  your  rates? 

Atex.      I  wish  room  and  bath, floor  for days  f. 

Atey.      Here  are  my  baggage  checks. 

Aveb.     Dock  No S.  S (La  France). 

Avec.      This  is  a  hallroom. 

Aved.     I  wish  a  room  with  sunlight  and  fresh  air. 

Avef.      This  room  will  do. 

Aveg.     It  is (two  francs)  more  than  the  other. 

Aveh.     I  think  it  worth  the  difference. 

Ayej.      Where  is  the  bell? 

Avek.     Please  show  me  the  elevator. 

Avel.      Kindly  direct  me  to  the  dining  room. 

Avem.    How  far  is  it  to (Notre  Dame)  ? 

Aven.     Will  the  electric  cars  take  me  there? 

Avep.     The (blue)  car,  coming  from  the (harbor) 

and  crossing  this  street blocks  from  here,  will  take  you  al- 
most to  the  door. 

Aveq.     I  wish  to  stop  at (Notre  Dame) ;  please  let  me 

know  when  we  are  there. 

Aver.      Please  send  for  a  cab. 

Aves.      Take  me  (us)  to 

What  is  the  fare? 

The  speed-recorder  registers miles. 

That,  then  makes francs. 

Come  back  at (10:30,  "Maemzo")  and  wait  for 


Avet. 
Avev. 
Avew. 
Avex. 
me  (us). 
Avey. 
Aweb. 
Awec. 
Awed. 

*IrTmaking  this  request,  write  or  draw  the  mark  or  marks  on  a  piece  of  paper.  A  better 
way  is  to  have  a  copy  of  all  marks  on  baggage  and  trunks  made  before  embarkation,  and 
to  have  this  available  for  presentation  at  any  time. 

|One  day  "bazza,"  two  days  "cazza,"  three  days  "dazza,"  etc.  For  designation  of  the 
floor  desired,  merely  write  the  number:  ca,  da,  or  fa,  etc.,  as  the  case  may  be. 


What  is  your  number? 

Are  there  any  letters  or  papers  for  Mr. 

Is  there  any  mail  for  me? 

Is  there  any  for  Mrs.  or  Miss 


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Awef.     WITH  THE  BARBER 

Aweg.  Where  is  the  barbershop? 

Aweh.  I  will  show  you  the  barbershop. 

Awej.  Take  this  seat,  sir. 

Awek.  Do  you  wish  a  haircut  or  shave? 

Awel.  I  want  my  hair  cut. 
Awem.  A  shave  only. 

Awen.  Do  you  want  a  face  massage? 

Awep.  Do  you  want  a  shampoo? 

Aweq.  Do  you  take  oil  on  your  hair? 

Awer.  Do  you  wish  your  hair  combed  dry  or  wet? 

Awes.  Yes,  you  may  shine  my  shoes. 

Awet.  You  had  better  remove  your  collar. 

Awev.  Do  you  wish  your  neck  shaved? 

Awew.  Yes,  sir. 

Awex.  No,  sir. 

Awey.  Requests. 

Axeb.  Please  bring  my  bill. 

Axec.  What  is  my  bill? 

Axed.  I  wish  to  settle  my  bill. 

Axef.  I  intend  to  depart  in  an  hour. 

Axeg.  Bring  this  trunk  (or  these  trunks)  to  station 

and  wait  there  until  I  come. 

Axeh.  I  am  coming  with  the  omnibus. 

Axej.  I  am  coming  in  an  automobile. 

Axek.  I  take  the  street-car. 

Axel.  Two tickets  for ,  please. 

Axem.  How  much  per  ticket  first-class? 

Axen.  How  much  per  ticket  second-class? 

Axep.  How  much  per  ticket  third-class? 

Axeq.  Where  is  the  baggage  checked? 

Axer.  Please  check  this  baggage  for 

Axes.  Please  show  me  your  sailing  list. 

Axet.  I  wish  to  go  by  a  swift  steamer. 

Axev.  Are  there  any  first-class  cabins  left? 

Axew.  I  prefer  an  outside  two-berth  cabin. 

Axex.  I  will  take  this  cabin,  it  is  well  located,  and  it  is  on  the 
saloon  deck,  I  believe. 

Axey.  I  have trunks. 

The  steamer  trunk  is  wanted. 

I  will  mark  it  myself,  to  avoid  mistake. 

What  time  does  the  steamer  leave? 

What  date  are  we  expected  to  arrive  at. 


here  are  the  tickets. 


Axteb. 
Axtec. 
Axted. 
Axtef. 

York)? 
Axteg. 
Axteh. 
Axtel. 
Axtem. 
Axten. 
Axtep. 


. .  (New 


How  many  saloon  passengers  are  registered? 
How  many  passengers  on  second-class? 
How  many  steerage  passengers? 
Is  this  steamer  a  new  vessel? 
Has  this  vessel  installed  wireless  apparatus? 
Will  you  kindly  furnish  me  a  description  of  this  ship — 


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length,  width,  depth,  displacement,  passenger  capacity  in  each  class, 
freight  capacity,  regular  trips,  etc.,  and  the  crew.  I  want  to  make 
use  of  this  information  in  writing  up  an  account  of  my  journey. 

Axteq.      Does  she  also  carry  much  mail? 

Axter.      Will  we  touch  Queenstown? 

Axtes.     CONDITIONS  OF  WEATHER 

Axtet.       The  thermometer  registers degrees  in  the  shade. 

Axtev.      The  thermometer  registers degrees  out  in 

Axtew.     The  open  sun,  where  men  and  teams  have  to  work. 

Axtex.      The  weather  is  hot  and  sultry. 

Axtey.  The  weather  is  endurable,  enabling  the  performance  of 
a  reasonable  day's  work. 

Ayteb.  The  weather  is  cool  and  refreshing  and  stimulating,  and 
to  work  is  a  pleasure. 

Aytec.  The  weather  is  turning  quite  cold,  requiring  change  of 
underwear. 

Ayted.  Springtime  is  coming;  warm  balmy  days  make  heavy 
underwear  uncomfortable — guess  will  have  to  change. 

Aytef.  A  thunderstorm  visited  this  part  of  the  country  (yester- 
day)— (NOTE:  The  shortest  and  surest  way  is  to  state  date  and 
hour  of  time  by  regular  Scientific  Dial  numerals). 

Ayteg.     The  thunder  and  lightning  were  terrible. 

Ayteh.      The  lightning  has  struck 

Aytej.       The  rain  is  falling  moderately. 

Aytek.      It  is  raining,  but  just  a  sprinkle. 

Aytel.       It  rained  just  enough  to  settle  the  dust. 

Aytem.  The  rain  has  done  much  good,  giving  us  a  thorough 
soaking,  making  plowing  and  cultivating  easy. 

Ayten.  The  rain  came  in  torrents,  swelling  creeks  and  rivers  and 
doing  much  damage. 

Aytep.  The  damage  from  the  flood  is  estimated  at 

for  the  loss  of  property,  including  damaged  goods,  washed-out 
houses  and  bridges  and  the  loss  of  livestock. 

Ayteq.  The  flood  has  craven  the  lives  of persons, 

among  whom  may  be  enumerated — men, women  and 

children. 

Ayter.      We  have  indication  of  frost — it  may  freeze  tonight. 

Aytes.      If  the  wind  continues  it  will  not  freeze. 

Aytet.       A  calm  in  the  morning  may  bring  frost. 

Aytev.      The  wind  kept  up  all  night,  holding  off  the  frost. 

Aytew.     A  light  frost  was  noticeable  last  night. 

Aptex.      A  severe  frost  visited  us  last  night. 

Aytey.      The  ground  is  frozen. 

Aeteb.      Winter  is  approaching. 

Aetec.  Snow  is  falling  fast;  the  flakes,  almost  as  large  as  mittens, 
are  falling  gracefully  in  the  calmest  weather. 

Acted.      The  snow  is  drifting. 

Aetef.       It  is  a  regular  midwinter  blizzard. 

Aeteg.      Causing  delay  in  traffic. 


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Aeteh.  Street-cars  are  blockaded. 

Aetej.  Trains  are hours  late. 

Aetek.  Sledding  and  skating  are  good. 

Aetel.  The  bright  warm  sun  is  melting  the  snow. 

Aetem.  It  is  thawing. 

Aeten.  The  ice  is  becoming  brittle  and  dangerous. 

Aetep.  The  road  is  slippery. 

Aeteq.  The  road  is  muddy. 

Aeter.  The  road  is  impassable. 

Aetes.  The  road  is  just  fine  and  automobiling  excellent. 


Aetet.     WEATHER  CONDITIONS  AS  AFFECTING  CROPS 

Aetev.      Weather  conditions  could  not  be  better  suited  to  fruit. 
Aetew.     It  is  feared  that  the  continuous  rainy  and  foggy  weather 
may  prevent  pollenizing  and  cause  a  fruit  failure. 

Aetex.      The  almond  tree,  the  indicator  of  spring,  is  bursting  into 
bloom. 

Aetey.      The  (apricots) are  blooming. 

Aiteb.       Present  indications  point  to  an  average  crop  of 

Aitec will  be  almost  total  failure  this  year. 

Aited.       Frost  has  hurt  some  early  varieties. 

Aitef.       The   Muscatel,   Malaga   and   Thompson  seedless   grapes 
have  been  seriously  injured  by  frost,  reducing  the  average  crop  to 

per  cent. 

Aiteh.       The  (state  kind  of  fruit  or  crop) will  turn  out 

per  cent  of  an  average  crop. 

We  have  foggy  forenoons  and  sunny  afternoons,  generally. 

It  is  cloudy. 

We  have  miserable  soggy  weather;  no  work  in  orchards 


to  be. . . 

Aitej. 

Aitek. 

Aitel. 
possible. 

Aitem. 

Aiten. 


It  is  raining  nearly  every  day. 

It  is  raining  almost  every  Sunday,  enabling  almost  con- 
tinuous undisturbed  work  during  the  entire  week. 

Aitep.       Autumn  is  approaching,  leaves  are  turning  in  color  and 
beginning  to  fall. 

Aiteq.       Our  harvest  has  been  favored  with  excellent  weather. 

Aiter.       The  September  rain  did  some  damage  to  raisins  and  dried 
fruit  on  trays. 

Aites.       Alfalfa  in  cocks  was  damaged  to  some  extent  by  the 
recent  rains. 


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Beb.     THE  LOVERS'  CODE 

It  is  fit  and  proper  to  include  in  the  CODE  DEPARTMENT  a  LOVERS' 
CODE.  Love  should  be,  must  be,  it  is,  the  mainspring  in  all  noble, 
elevating  and  edifying  emotions,  aspirations  and  actions. 

Bee.  "The  soul  may  sooner  leave  off  to  subsist  than  to  love;  and, 
like  the  vine,  it  withers  and  dies  if  it  has  nothing  to  embrace." — South. 

Bed.  "It  is  the  heat  of  the  universe.  Philosophers  tell  us  that 
without  heat  the  universe  would  die.  And  love  in  the  moral  universe 
is  what  heat  is  in  the  natural  world.  It  is  the  great  germinating 
power.  It  is  the  ripening  influence.  It  is  the  power  by  which  all 
things  are  brought  steadily  up  from  lower  to  higher  forms." — Beecher. 

Bef.  "Love  is  the  queen  of  the  graces;  it  outshines  all  the  others, 
as  the  sun  the  lesser  planets." — Watson. 

Beg.     "Love  is  the  bond  that  unites  all  holy  intelligences." 

Beh.  "Love  is  the  heart  of  religion,  the  fat  of  the  offering:  it  is 
the  grace  which  Christ  inquires  most  after,  Teter,  lovest  thou  Me?' 
Love  makes  all  our  services  acceptable,  it  is  the  musk  that  perfumes 
them." — Watson. 

Bej.  "Its  excellence  is  manifest  in  its  influence  on  the  heart  and 
life."' 

Bek.  "Love  and  fear  are  like  the  sun  and  moon,  seldom  seen 
together." —  Newton. 

Bel.  "Nothing  is  difficult  to  love:  it  will  make  a  man  cross  his 
own  inclinations  to  pleasure  them  whom  he  loves." — Tillotson. 

Bern.  "Love  is  like  wings  to  the  bird,  like  sails  to  the  ship;  it 
carries  a  Christian  full  sail  to  heaven.  When  love  cools,  obedience 
slacks,  and  drives  heavily,  because  it  wants  the  oil  on  its  wheel  that 
love  used  to  drop." — Watson. 

Ben.  "Labors  of  love  are  light.  Routine  is  a  hard  master.  Love 
much,  and  you  can  do  much.  Impossibilities  disappear  when  zeal  is 
fervent." — Spurgeon. 

Bep.  "If  you  wish  to  go  from  one  side  to  the  other  of  a  steep, 
high  hill,  and  there  is  a  road  through  it,  how  much  better  it  is  to  take 
the  road  than  to  climb  over  the  top  of  the  hill.  Now  there  is  such 
a  road  as  this  to  the  performance  of  duties,  and  that  is  the  road  of 
love.  If  a  man  does  the  things  that  he  has  to  do  in  any  other  spirit 
than  that  of  love,  they  are  irksome  tasks;  but  if  he  does  them  in  a 
spirit  of  love,  how  his  face  laughs;  how  his  hands  tingle;  how  radiant 
is  every  part  of  his  life." — Beecher. 

Beq.  "Think  of  the  things  a  mother  does  for  her  child.  She 
gives  it  her  life.  She  cannot  serve  it  enough.  To  her  there  is  nothing 
but,  'My  babe.'  It  is  her  joy,  her  pleasure,  night  and  day.  There 
are  offices  that  she  has  to  perform  toward  it  that  are  disagreeable  for 
the  moment,  but  her  love  for  it  enables  her  to  perform  them  with 
willingness,  and  forget  all  connected  with  them  which  is  unpleasant. 
And  thus  are  fulfilled  the  words  of  Christ  when  he  says,  'My  yoke  is 
easy,  and  my  burden  is  light.'  Not  that  the  things  which  you  do 
from  love  are  not  sometimes  hard,  but  that  there  is  a  way  in  which 
you  can  engineer  hard  things  and  make  them  seem  easy.  Love, 
and  love  enough,  and  your  burdens  will  not  seem  heavy.  Love  is 


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able  to  steer  you  over  all  difficulty.     Employ  it,  and  it  will  carry  you 
through  life  with  power  adequate  to  your  exigencies." — Beecher. 

Ber.     Love  makes  the  soul  beautiful. 

Bes.     "The  love  of  Jesus  Christ  in  the  heart  of  man  is  like  a  ray  of 
sun  shining  through  the  painted  windows  of  a  cathedral,  coloring 
and   embellishing   it,    but   destroying   and   displacing   no  thing.  "- 
Vienney. 

Bet.  "Love,  that  geyser  of  the  soul,  can  melt  the  ice  and  snow  of 
the  most  frozen  regions;  wherever  its  warm  springs  well  up,  there 
glows  a  southern  climate." 

Bev.     "With  love,  the  heart  becomes  a  fair  and  fertile  garden,  with 


'As  the  bridegroom  rejoiceth  over  the  bride,  so  shall  thy  God  rejoice 

over  thee." 


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sunshine  and  warm  hues,  and  exhaling  sweet  odors;  but  without  it, 
it  is  a  bleak  desert  covered  with  ashes." 

Bew.  "True  love  alone  can  awaken  and  evoke  all  the  nobility  and 
grandeur  of  human  nature." — Braden. 

Bex.  "To  love  as  Christ  loves,  is  to  let  our  love  be  practical,  and 
not  merely  a  sentimental  thing.  Some  are  in  danger  of  becoming 
mere  religious  sentimentalists.  They  revel  in  poetry  of  feeling; 
they  are  easily  wrought  into  an  effervescence  of  tenderness;  they 
delight  in  a  storm  of  emotional  vehemency.  All  this  they  suppose 
to  be  Christian  love.  Yet  it  is  a  love  that  costs  them  nothing.  They 
feel  much,  do  little.  They  are  ready  for  sympathy,  but  not  for  sac- 
rifice. They  try,  in  effect,  to  divorce  benevolence  from  beneficence. 
They  are  the  sensitive  plants  of  the  church,  and  not  the  fruit-bearing 
trees  of  righteousness." — Stanford. 

Bey.     "Love  is  its  own  perennial  fount  of  strength.     The  strength 


A  typical  happy  young  family. 


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of  affection  is  a  proof  not  of  the  worthiness  of  the  object,  but  of  the 
largeness  of  the  soul  that  loves.  Love  descends,  not  ascends.  The 
might  of  a  river  depends  not  on  the  quality  of  the  soil  through  which 
it  passes,  but  on  the  inexhaustibleness  and  depth  of  the  spring  from 
which  it  proceeds.  The  greater  mind  cleaves  to  the  smaller  with 
more  force  than  the  other  to  it.  A  parent  loves  the  child  more  than 
the  child  the  parent;  and  partly  because  the  parent's  heart  is  larger, 
not  because  the  child  is  worthier.  The  Savior  loved  His  disciples 
infinitely  more  than  His  disciples  loved  Him,  because  His  heart  was 
infinitely  larger.  Love  trusts  on,  ever  hopes  and  expects  better 
things;  and  is  a  trust  springing  from  itself,  and  out  of  its  own  deeps 
alone/'—  Roland  Hill. 

Ceb.  " Alexander,  Gaesar,  Charlemagne,  and  I  myself,  have 
founded  great  empires:  but  upon  what  do  these  creations  of  our 
genius  depend?  Upon  force.  Jesus,  alone,  founded  His  empire 

upon  love,  and  to  this  very  day  millions  would  die  f or jHim 

I  think  I  understand  something  of  human  nature;  and  I  tell  you,  all 
these  were  men;  and  I  am  a  man:  none  else  like^Him.  Jesus  Christ 
was  more  than  man." — Napoleon  I. 

Cec.  "A  loving  wife,  when  her  husband  returns  home^from  a  far 
country,  as  soon  as  she  is  sensible  of  his  approach  or  hears  his  voice, 
although  she  be  ever  so  much  engaged  in  business,  or  forcibly  detained 
from  him  in  the  midst  of  a  crowd,  yet  her  heart  is  not  withheld  from 
him,  but  leaps  over  all  other  thoughts  to  think  of  her  husband  who 
has  returned.  It  is  the  same  with  souls  that  love  God." — Francis 
de  Sales. 

Ced.  "We  would  please  those  whom  we  greatly  love.  No  praises 
are  as  sweet  as  theirs.  We  can  bear  the  frown  of  others  if  they 
only  smile.  We  often  care  for  no  other  compensation  for  toil,  and 
pain,  and  suffering  than  their  approval.  The  affectionate  child  who 
contends  at  school  or  college  for  some  prize  of  youthful  ambition, 
knows  of  no  stimulant  to  his  industry  and  exertion  like  that  which 
he  feels  when  he  thinks  what  may  be  the  joy  one  day  of  father  and 
mother,  brother  and  sister,  on  his  account.  When  he  has  succeeded 
in  the  strife  he  is  not  moved  by  the  commendation  of  his  teachers, 
or  the  plaudits  of  his  companions,  as  he  is  by  what  he  knows  will  be 

thought,  and  felt,  and  said  at  home It  is  of  the  nature  of  true 

love  thus  to  prize  the  joy  and  approval  of  its  object." —  David  Thomas. 

Cef.     WINNING  A  BRIDE 

Ceg.  "And  the  Lord  God  said,  It  is  not  good  that  the  man  should 
be  alone;  I  will  make  an  help-meet  for  him." — Bible. 

Ceh.  "And  God  blessed  them,  and  God  said  unto  them,  Be  fruit- 
ful, and  multiply,  and  replenish  the  earth,  and  subdue  it." — Genesis 
1:28. 

Cej.  "For  as  a  young  man  marrieth  a  virgin,  so  shall  thy  sons 
marry  thee:  and  as  the  bridegroom  rejoiceth  over  the  bride,  so  shall 
thy  God  rejoice  over  thee."— Isaiah  62:5. 


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Cek.     Are  you  under  obligation  to  anyone? 

Cel.      Are  you  engaged? 

Cem.    May  I  ask  your  pleasant  company  to  church  Sunday? 

Cen.     May  I  call  on  you  Thursday  evening? 

Cep.      Do  your  folks  seem  to  have  any  objection  to  my  calls? 

Ceq.      I  enjoy  and  appreciate  your  company  exceedingly. 

Cer.  Dear  Miss  Alma:  Please  accept  this  copy  of  the  SCIENTIFIC 
DIAL  PRIMER.  It  contains  expressions  for  feelings  and  emotions  in 
young  people's  hearts,  and  a  mode  of  communication  that  is  direct, 
pleasing,  and  strictly  private  to  the  parties  using  it,  by  resorting  to 
its  marvelous  arrangement  of  keys.  It  is  at  the  same  time  a  novelty 
and  a  revelation.  Let  us  use  it  in  our  confidential  correspondence. 
I  suggest  the  key  of  "Ca"  as  a  starter,  as  that  key  is  easy  to  remember, 
it  being  one  degree  only  on  the  descending  scale.  That  is,  for  ex- 
ample, when  you  intimate  "La,"  you  write  "Ka,"  just  one  degree 
above  the  one  intended  in  your  correspondence.  Sincerely  and 
lovingly,  MARVIN. 

Ces.  Dear  Miss:  Scarcely  had  I  the  pleasure  of  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  you,  when  I  felt  the  most  ardent  desire  of  being 
united  to  you  for  life.  Should  your  heart  be  still  disengaged,  and 
you  feel  that  you  can  return  the  affection  that  I  entertain  for  you, 
you  would  make  me  the  happiest  man  on  earth. 

Get.  I  claim  nothing  but  your  amiable  person;  and  your  hand  is 
more  valuable  to  me  than  all  the  riches  of  the  world. 


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Cev.     Please  to  decide  my  fate  as  soon  as  possible. 
Cew.     You  favorable  answer  will  fill  my  heart  with  joy,  for  no  one 
can  love  you  more  than  your  affectionate  friend. 

WELL  TESTED  AFFECTION 

Cey.  Dear  Miss:  I  am  so  well  convinced  of  the  generosity  of 
your  character,  that  I  do  not  hesitate  in  laying  open  before  you  the 
inmost  feelings  of  my  heart.  Since  I  had  the  pleasure  of  making 
your  acquaintance,  my  heart  has  constantly  told  me  that  in  you  I 
had  found  the  companion  of  my  life.  Your  qualities,  which  I  have 


The  Trio. 

attentively  observed,  have  produced  in  me,  not  a  fleeting  passion, 
but  a  well  tested  affection.  As  however,  not  only  my  inclination, 
but  also  my  household  obliges  me  to  look  for  a  companion  for  life, 
I  hesitate  no  longer  to  ascertain  my  fate  by  asking  you  the  simple 
question,  if  you  can  reciprocate  my  affection.  You  know  that  my 
circumstances  are  good,  and  I  assure  you  that  I  am  firmly  resolved 
to  make  you  happy  if  you  consent  to  give  me  your  heart  and  hand 
for  life. 

DELIVER  FROM  TORMENT 

Deb.  Please  explain  yourself  openly  and  frankly,  and  deliver  me 
from  this  torment  of  uncertainty.  As  I  have  unreservedly  expressed 
to  you  my  sentiments,  I  am  convinced  that  you  will  answer  me  in 


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the  same  spirit,  after  consulting  your  heart.  Whatever  your  de- 
cision may  be,  I  shall  always  esteem  you  highly,  and  if  you  should 
return  my  affection,  I  entertain  a  feeling  that  my  happiness  will  far 
surpass  my  fondest  hopes.  Pardon  my  timidity  if  in  this  I  have 
communicated  what  I  might  have  told  you  personally.  Anxiously 
awaiting  your  reply,  I  remain  your  most  devoted. 

Dec.  Dearest :  Indeed,  I  do  not  condemn  you;  stouter 

hearts  than  a  woman's  have  quailed  under  similar  conditions.  Yours 
is  tender  and  trusting,  and  needs  a  stronger  one  to  lean  on;  so  I  now 
come  to  you  with  an  offer  and  proffer  of  marriage. 

Ded.  Yes,  we  must  ever  be  friends;  and  of  all  who  offer  you 
friendship,  let  me  be  ever  the  first,  the  truest,  the  nearest,  the  dearest. 

Def.      I  will  teach  you  to  love  me,  I  will  make  you  happy. 

Deg.  You  couldn't  love — not  yet.  You  haven't  had  the  expe- 
rience. You  will  have  to  learn. 

Deh.     You  will  make  some  man  happier  than  ever  man  was  before. 

Dej.  I  have  felt  how  much  you  will  give — how  much  you  will 
love.  I  have  felt  it  from  the  second  time  I  saw  you — perhaps  from 
the  first. 

Dek.  I  have  never  seen  any  woman  who  interested  me  as  you  do — 
who  drew  me  as  you  do — against  my  ambition,  against  my  will. 

Del.  You  are  a  mystery  to  me.  I  can't  decide  whether  you  are 
very  innocent  or  very — concealing. 

Dem.  I  have  seen  so  much  about  faking — in  women  as  well  as  in 
men — that  it  is  hard  for  me  to  believe  that  anyone  is  genuine. 

Den.  Yes,  darling — you  will,  you  can't  help  loving  where  you 
are  loved  so  utterly. 

Dep.     Earth's  flowers  are  maiden's  eyes. 

A  LITTLE  MARVEL 

Deq.  Dearest  darling,  mine:  I  thank  you  a  thousand  times  for 
your  sweet,  balmy,  cordial  communication  of  (Hapelana — June  12th, 
1911).  I  am  also  much  pleased  to  learn  that  you  appreciate  the 
simple  gift  of  the  SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  PRIMER.  "Simple,"  I  mean,  in 
the  sense  of  value  in  dollars  and  cents.  I  realize,  as  you  say,  that 
it  is  a  little  marvel — that  Dial — with  its  manyfold  contents  and  appli- 
cations. After  only  2  weeks'  study  during  spare  moments  (I  work 
ten  hours  a  day),  I  can  clearly  see  how  in  it  we  have  the  elements  of 
universal  language  that  will  enable  us  to  communicate  with  every 
civilized  nation  in  the  world.  I  am  already  able  to  write  and  under- 
stand SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  dating  and  numerals,  and  I  can  see  what 
a  labor-saving  device  it  is. 

PURE  AND  UNALLOYED 

Der.  My  dear  miss:  Your  quiet  domestic  life,  and  the  unpre- 
tending amiability  of  your  whole  being,  had  attracted  my  attention 
toward  you,  but  since  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  visiting  your 
family  circle,  this  attention  has  been  converted  into  esteem,  which 
has  since  changed  to  unconquerable  heart  felt  affection.  I  have 


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Ripening  into  wifehood  and  motherhood. 

strictly  examined  myself  if  these  feelings  could  be  of  temporary 
nature;  but  no — it  is  sincere  and  lasting  attachment,  which  neither 
time  nor  circumstances  can  alter.  Pardon  me,  dearly  beloved,  for 
thus  expressing  in  language  unadorned,  the  feelings  of  my  heart. 
My  sentiments  for  you  are  as  pure  and  unalloyed  as  my  language  is 
simple,  and  the  hope  that  I  am  not  entirely  indifferent  to  you  has 
encouraged  me  to  disclose  them  to  you  thus  frankly.  Whether  I 
have  awakened  in  your  breast  similar  sentiments,  I  can  not  presume 
to  decide,  but  I  trust  that  if  faults  have  not  escaped  your  excellent 
judgment,  you  will  also  have  found  in  me  some  good  qualities  that 
would  plead  my  cause.  I  remain  with  love  and  esteem  yours. 

Des.      Charming,  lovely  Bilane.  * 

Det.  Even  in  the  still  walks  of  female  retirement,  the  noble  and 
estimable  qualities  of  the  heart  and  head  cannot  remain  concealed. 

Dev.  If  your  parents  have  no  objections  to  allowing  an  honest 
young  man,  who  is  without  any  ties,  to  visit  your  family,  I  shall 
appreciate  the  favor  to  wait  upon  you  personally,  to  assure  you  of 
my  esteem,  and  to  ask  for  your  friendship.  I  shall  consider  myself 
happy  to  be  your  companion,  the  confidant  of  all  your  hopes  and 
wishes,  and  your  sympathizing  friend  in  all  situations  of  life. 

Dew.  If  circumstances,  of  which  I  am  not  aware,  should  make 
my  offer  unacceptable,  I  trust  you  will  treat  my  importunity  with 
indulgence. 

Dex.  My  dearest :  I  thank  you  for  your  prompt  answer.  Though 
you  did  not  feel  ready  to  answer  directly  in  the  affirmative,  but  prom- 
ise to  take  my  proposal  under  consideration,  still  your  answer 
gives  me  some  hope  of  favorable  results. 

m  *Parties  corresponding  by  means  of  the  Scientific  Dial  Code  may  agree  upon  code  names 
to  be  used  in  their  correspondence.  The  value  of  the  name  here  given  is  $10,931. 


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Dey.  Think  of  it — days  seem  like  weeks  and  weeks  like  months 
in — waiting. 

UNDER  ADVISEMENT 

Feb.  My  dear — :  Your  prompt  answer  again  reveals  to  me 
another  virtue,  punctuality,  which  you  possess,  and  which  makes 
you  still  dearer,  sweeter,  lovelier  in  my  estimation;  and  it  also  makes 
me  happier  in  the  anticipation  of  the  bright  morning  star  in  the  home, 
which  I  hope  soon  to  have  established — your  determination  to  con- 
sult your  mother  has  a  double  meaning  for  me :  it  evidences  your  good 
sense,  and  loyalty  to  the  one  dearest  in  our  memory,  and  it  also 
assures  me  that  you  appreciate  my  proposal  enough  to  take  the 
same  under  advisement.  I  hope  that  I  have  not  in  any  manner 
made  myself  unworthy  the  confidence  of  your  esteemed  mother, 
whom  I  respect  as  a  lady  of  high  and  noble  attainments. 

UNDER  PROBATION 

Fee.  Dearest  Alvina.  I  thank  you,  dear,  for  the  acceptance, 
though  made  conditionally.  Like  Jacob  of  old,  I  shall  have  to  pur- 
chase a  bride  with  a  price,  and  that  price  you  denominate  a  sacrifice 
for  you.  Now  let  me  state  the  case.  You  are  making  a  sacrifice  for 
me,  while  I,  poor  wretch,  clean  up.  Well,  I  was  a  little  bit  surprised; 
but  I  am  persuaded,  convinced,  subdued,  captured  and  brought  a 
captive  to  your  feet  by  your  logical,  consistent,  scholarly  reasoning. 
Oh,  how  that  one  sentence  of  yours  has  burnt  itself  into  my  heart, 
and  it  is  still  singeing: —  "I  have  had  the  great  opportunity  of  a 
Christian  mother,"  you  say,  "who  has  concerned  herself  about  the 


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virtues  and  purity  of  her  daughters;  and  I  much  desire  an  equally 
virtuous,  clean  and  pure  husband." 

Fed.     I  wish  I  could  say  the  same  of  my  mother.    She  was  a  good, 
lovely,  kind  mother,  caring  more  and  working  harder  for  the  temporal 


My  Diploma. 

welfare  of  her  children  than  she  ought;  but  she  had  no  concern  for 
their  spiritual  or  moral  welfare.  So  I  got  into  the  tobacco  habit,  as 
other  neglected  boys  do,  without  a  warning  word  from  home,  which 
could  hardly  be  expected,  as  father  is  both  a  chewer  and  smoker 
himself.  But,  darling  sweetheart,  I  buried  both  the  pipe  and  a  half 
pound  of  tobacco  several  feet  into  the  ground  the  moment  I  got  your 


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communication.  I  now  promise  you  and  my  God  never  to  touch  the 
nasty  weed  again.  And  when  I  shall  have  the  next  pleasure  to  meet  you, 
honey  sweetheart,  I  shall  claim  a  kiss  for  it.  But  that  long  year  of 
probation!  I  intended  to  establish  our  new  home  in  three  months, 
if  you  were  ready,  and  now  I  find  out  that  it  is  that  bad  habit  of  mine 
which  has  made  me  unfit  for  wedlock  for  a  whole  year. 

Fef.  I  submit.  Should  or  would  I  in  any  manner  be  the  cause  of 
misery  or  aptitude  for  bad  habits,  or  lack  of  energy,  or  abnormal 
tendencies,  communicated  to  coming  generations?  Rather  would  I 
resolve  upon  continency  forever  or  be  dead  than  to  be  a  propagator 
of  disease  among  my  offspring. 

Feg.  I  thank  you,  honey,  most  cordially  and  sincerely  for  the 
stand  you  have  taken.  I  hope  to  become  a  worthy  and  grateful 
disciple  under  your  tutelage  during  the  coming  year.  I  rejoice  that 
henceforth  you  are  mine.  In  return  I  am  assigned  unreservedly  with 
all  my  belongings  to  you. 

Feb.  Dearest  Alvina,  I  have  considered  all  the  morning  what 
present  might  be  most  agreeable  to  you ;  at  last  I  determined  to  send 
you  my  miniature,  and  to  request  you  to  wear  it  as  a  token  of  my  love. 

INSULTING  TREATMENT 

Fej.  Dear  Miss  Lela.  I  could  never  have  supposed  that  a  lady, 
whom  I  have  always  treated  with  the  utmost  respect,  would  so  far 
insult  the  feelings  of  a  man,  whose  heart  beats  for  her  alone.  Your 
conduct  has  convinced  me  that  the  happiness  of  him,  who  is  so  sin- 
cerely devoted  to  you,  is  of  no  importance  to  you,  and  if  your  conduct 
toward  me  does  not  change  I  shall  be  obliged  to  bid  you  farewell 
forever,  however  miserable  such  a  separation  would  make  me. 

Fek.     A  QUEEN,  A  RULER  OF  THE  HOUSE 
Servants  may  be  hired  for  money 

Fresno,  California,  Japelana. 

Fel.  Dearest — (Ruth): — Your  most  entertaining  and  interesting 
and  sensible  letter  just  at  hand  and  contents  carefully  perused.  I 
read  it  to  father  and  mother,  and  they  have  become  so  enthusiastic 
over  your  proposition  that  they  have  requested  me  to  inform  you 
that  they  have  decided  to  support  you  during  your  proposed  studies. 
Your  letter  opened  wide  the  door  to  their  hearts.  They  were  some- 
what reluctant  before,  not  so  that  they  opposed,  and  yet  a  certain 
something  kept  them  from  cordial  sympathy  and  a  whole  hearted 
welcome.  But  now — why,  mother  is  talking  about  you  all  the  time; 
and  how  she  rejoices  in  anticipation  of  your  coming  into  our  family. 

RESPLENDENT  AND  BEAUTIFUL 

Fein.  Only  one  thing  in  your  letter  is  causing  me  grief.  You 
seem  to  think  of  nothing  else  than  to  please  and  to  serve  me.  Dearest 
darling,  how  could  I  think  for  a  moment  that  you  should  become  a 
better  housekeeper  and  of  better  service  to  me!  Though  I  most 
cheerfully  favor  your  proposition,  though  I  appreciate  exceedingly 


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your  honest  and  earnest  efforts  to  prepare  yourself  for  a  useful  life: — 
I  assure  you  that  both  your  efforts  and  mine  will  and  shall  redound 
in  a  happy  home,  resplendent  and  beautiful,  and  in  that  home  shall 
MY  Love,  the  one  who  owns  me  wholly,  entirely,  and  who  by  her 
untarnished  virtues,  her  unselfish  love  and  self-sacrificing  devotion 
has  captured  and  made  subservient  a  whole  family,  will  in  time  exert 
a  dominating  influence  in  the  community;  and,  darling,  by  becoming 
a  blessing,  as  you  are  preparing  yourself  to  be,  rivers  and  oceans  of 
blessing  will  redound  to  you,  and  to  lucky  me,  by  way  of  combination 
and  co-operation. 

Fen.  Dearly  beloved,  I  am  not  looking  for  a  housekeeper,  nor  am 
I  looking  for  a  servant,  for  such  I  can  hire  for  money,  but  I  am  look- 
ing for  a  queen,  a  ruler  of  my  house,  a  life-partner,  life-mate;  a 
genuine  home-maker,  home-establisher,  home-maintainer;  a  home- 
attraction,  a  home  embellishment,  a — persona  grata — and  this  I 
have  the  happy  assurance  of  having  in  you,  prospectively,  as  yet, 
but  in  reality  in  faith  and  hope. 

Fep.  Oh,  how  I  long  and  pant  for  the  day  you  shall  enter  our  home 
to  depart  no  more.  May  the  Lord  which  we  both  endeavor  to  serve 
and  to  glorify,  lead  us  in  his  path  and  grant  our  prayers. 

Feq.  Mother  sends  you  a  letter,  too.  Open  it  carefully,  for  I 
suspicion  something  may  drop  out. 

Fer.  I  send  a  little  package  by  express  which  I  hope  will  be  ac- 
cepted as  a  token  of  love  and  appreciation. 

Sincerely  and  lovingly —      — (Louis). 


THE  CAPTURED  MOTHER-IN-LAW 

Fresno,  California,  Japelana. 
Miss —     — (Ruth  Johnson), 
Loversville,  Amoria. 

Fes.  My  dear  daughter: — Your  recent  letter  has  captivated  my 
heart  for  you.  I  want  to  apologize  and  ask  your  pardon  for  any 
feeling  I  may  have  had  against  you.  I  had  a  notion  that  you  were 
too  young  for  Louis  and  that  you  wanted  him  for  the  purpose  of 
getting  into  our  family  and  home  to  find  plenty  of  everything,  and 
what  we  have  saved  for  many  years  might  soon  melt  away. 

Fet.  But  your  thoughtful  letter  represents  an  entirely  different 
girl  from  what  I  thought  you  to  be.  I  want  to  welcome  you  into  our 
family  and  home  as  a  dear  daughter,  for  now  I  understand  that  I  can 
turn  over  the  house  to  you  and  know  that  it  will  be  in  safe  hands. 

Fev.  And  I  want  to  pay  for  the  additional  education,  which  you 
propose.  I  suggested  that  to  father,  and  he  is  delighted  and  agrees 
with  me  in  this,  so  we  both  bid  you  welcome. 

Enclosed   find   draft  for—  — (mizzy — $50.00)  for  a  starting, 

and  more  will  follow  when  needed.  I  have  sent  you  a  dress  pattern 
and  some  other  little  things  by  express.  Receive  and  accept  these 
as  a  token  of  our  sincerity  and  love. 

Affectionately, 

— (Juliana  Jones). 


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HAVE  IT  YOUR  OWN  WAY,  DARLING 

Fresno,  Cal.,  Javelana. 

Few.  Dearest — —(Ruth): — I  never  expected  you  to  pour  out 
your  soul  the  way  you  do.  Your  last  letter  is  a  GEM  and  you  are  the 
PEARL.  It  is  not  the  appreciation  of  yourself  but  our  appreciation 
of  you  that  counts.  You  would  not  prevent  me  from  considering 
you  in  the  terms  I  have  expressed,  would  you?  You  admitted  that 
much  when  you  wrote  that  admirable  sentence,  "Well,  have  it  your 
own  way,  darling."  I  consider  you  fully  competent  and  qualified  for 
the  position  tendered. you,  and  the  additional  preparation,  as  pro- 
posed, will  more  than  meet  my  highest  anticipation  and  my  most 
exaggerated  claims.  Now,  therefore,  beloved,  rest  easy.  Don't 
worry.  Don't  overwork.  Personally,  I  would  prefer  to  fix  an  early 
date  for  our  marriage.  Four,  and  perhaps  six  months,  appear  as  so 
many  years  to  me,  to  my  anxious  yearning,  longing  heart  for  you. 
However,  we  will  make  the  best  of  it  on  either  side.  I  pray  God  to 
bless  you,  to  give  you  strength,  and  to  make'  our  lives  useful  and 
blissful. 

Sincerely,  longingly  and  lovingly, 

Louis. 


AN  ANSWER  TO  PRAYERS 

Fresno,  California,  Jaselana. 

Fex.  Dearest  Daughter  (Ruth) : — Your  lovely  letter  received,  and 
I  have  read  it  and  re-read  it,  and  I  have  soaked  it  in  tears.  It  is  your 
humbleness,  your  self-abasement  that  makes  you  so  dear  and  lovely, 
dear  Ruth.  How  different  you  are  from  other  girls.  I  have  continued 
in  prayer  to  God  to  give  Louis  a  wife  of  His  own  selection;  and  I  re- 
joice now  in  the  assurance,  that  you,  dear  Ruth,  are  that  gift  of  God  I 
have  been  asking  for;  that  you  are  the  answer  to  my  prayers.  You 
have  changed  my  prayers  to  thanksgiving. 

Fey.  I  again  send  you  a  few  little  trinkets  as  tokens  of  our  love. 
Father  sends  his  love,  too.  You  are  always  in  our  minds  and  prayers. 
Louis  is  having  the  house  re-painted  and  renovated  both  outside  and 
inside.  The  boy  is  planning  and  working  early  and  late  as  never  be- 
fore. But  he  is  not  alone,  for  father  and  I  are  doing  all  we  can  to  fix 
things  in  first-class  shape  for  the  arrival  of  our  beloved. 

Geb.  Dear  Ruth,  our  correspondence  may  have  been  somewhat 
exciting  for  you  as  it  has  for  us.  You  now  need  quiet  and  composure 
for  the  prosecution  of  your  studies.  I  think  that  you  are  now  satis- 
fied in  your  own  mind  that  we  all  esteem  you  highly  and  that  a 
hearty  welcome  awaits  you  when  your  course  is  finished. 

Gee.  I  shall  be  pleased  to  receive  a  few  lines  from  you  occasionally. 
We  have  arranged  to  pay  all  your  expenses,  so  your  own  savings  must 
not  be  used  for  any  part  thereof. 

Affectionately, 

JULIANA  JONES. 


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Ged.     A  PEARL  AMONG  WOMEN 

Gef .  Dearest  (Louie) :  Don't  you  think  I  had  better  take  a  course 
in  Domestic  Science  before  we  marry?  I  feel  much  inclined  that  way. 
I  want  to  know  more  about  the  Science  of  Housekeeping,  the  care  of 
the  sick,  and  such  other  matters  as  will  be  serviceable  in  the  family. 
I  have  taken  a  course  in  dressmaking  and  millinery,  enough  to  make 
my  every  day  clothing  at  least;  and  by  taking  an  additional  four  or 
six  months  course  in  Domestic  Science  I  think  I  could  consider  myself 
qualified  for  housekeeping.  You  have  qualified  yourself  for  your 
occupation  and  life  work.  I  should  consider  myself  as  a  good-for- 
nothing  companion  to  you  if  I  failed  to  do  the  same. 

Geg.  The  grammar  and  high-school  courses  we  have  taken  have 
given  us  some  idea  of  ourselves  and  the  world  which  we  live  in,  but 
we  were  not  taught  the  science  of  making  good  and  wholesome  bread, 
the  nutritious  properties  and  value  of  cereals,  fruits,  nuts  and  meats, 
and  the  various  modes  of  preparation  to  make  palatable,  wholesome 
nourishment  for.  the  human  body,  suitable  for  various  ages  and  con- 
ditions. 

Geh.  Some  instruction  in  nursing  and  the  care  of  the  sick  would 
not  be  amiss,  either, -and  may  relieve  suffering  and  save  doctor's 
bills. 

Gej.  I  think  that  by  acquiring  some  knowledge  and  practice  along 
these  lines  I  would  become  a  better  and  more  useful  housekeeper  and 
of  better  service  to  my  darling,  prospective  husband. 

Gek.  It  is  better  to  endure  a  little  more  now,  before  we  come  to- 
gether to  establish  our  home,  than  for  you  to  find  out  my  ignorance, 
shortcoming  or  incompetency  afterward. 

Gel.  May  I  ask  for  your  pleasure  in  the  matter  hinted  at  at  your 
earliest  convenience. 

Lovingly,  RUTH. 


IT  MAKES  ME  BLUSH 

Gem.  Dearest  Louie:  I  am  in  receipt  of  your  wonderful  letter 
and  the  fine  presents.  Darling  mine,  the  thing  makes  me  blush.  I 
am  afraid  that  I  can  never,  no,  never,  come  up  to  your  ideals  of  a  wife. 
If  I  didn't  love  you  the  way  I  do,  and  if  I  didn't  know  what  a  dear, 
affectionate,  patient,  forbearing  soul  you  are,  I  would  feel  constrained 
to  back  out. 

Gen.  Well,  have  it  your  own  way,  darling.  For  my  part,  I  feel 
that  I  shall  be  happy  only  in  your  company,  and  that  there  isn't 
another  young  man  in  all  the  world  that  could  make  me  happy. 

Gep.  If,  therefore,  there  is  anything  in  me,  and  if  there  is  any- 
thing that  I  can  be  or  do  to  make  you  happy,  and  to  please  your  dear 
and  lovely  parents,  that  would  I  be  and  do  for  the  pleasure  there  is 
in  the  act  of  pleasing  you,  and  to  know  and  see  that  you  are  happy; 
and,  darling,  if  I  may  have  the  consciousness  that  you  are  pleased 
and  happy  because  of  me,  that  will  fill  my  cup  of  joy  and  satisfaction 
to  overflowing. 


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A  lover  of  flowers. 

Geq.  I  have  received  a  letter  and  a  lot  of  nice  things  from  your 
mother,  and  I  will  mail  an  answer  to  her  letter  at  the  same  time  that 
I  mail  this  letter  to  you.  I  am  glad  and  thankful  for  the  change  of 
sentiment  in  your  parents.  May  I  be  worthy  of  their  affection  and 
sacrifices!  which  I  well  understand  is  coming  to  me  for  your  sake. 
Your  loving  kindness,  thus  already  overflowing,  is  adding  greatly  to 
my  enjoyment  and  happiness.  What  divine  favor  and  grace  for  me 
to  be  the  choice  to  enter  into  and  to  become  engrafted  into  such  a 
respectable  family  as  yours. 

Kindest  greetings  and  love  to   all. 

Lovingly,  RUTH. 


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WHEN  LOVE  is  GENUINE 

Ger.  Dear  Mrs.  Jones:  Many;  many  thanks  for  your  kind  letter 
and  the  presents.  It  all  came  as  a  surprise,  but  all  the  more  appre- 
ciated. While  I  rejoice  in  the  anticipation  of  becoming  the  wife  of  your 
son,  the  loveliest  and  handsomest  young  gentleman  in  all  the  world, 
and  while  I  consider  it  a  great  favor  and  a  matchless  opportunity  to 
enter  your  family,  and  to  esteem  you,  and  to  adore  you  as  mother, 
still,  your  letter,  and  that  of  Louie  also,  is  placing  me  way  above  my 

actual  worth  and  ability.     Dear  mother (Jones)  I  am  nothing 

but  a  poor,  ignorant,  silly  girl,  just  trying — just  trying  to  fit  myself 
for  life's  duties.  If  you  will  accept  me  as  I  am,  have  patience  with 
me,  will  allow  me  the  position  of  your  own  daughter,  to  be  guided  by 
your  long  life  of  practice  and  experience  in  housekeeping,  I  shall  be 
happy  and  do  the  very  best  I  can.  That  is  all  I  can  do.  The  object  of 
my  whole  life  is  and  shall  be  to  make  dear  Louie  and  you  happy  in  such 
measure  as  it  is  within  me  to  do  it.  /  say  "within  me,"  for  I  know  that 
when  love  is  genuine,  and  I  and  my  being  am  truly  acceptable,  lovable  and 
loved,  then  will  my  doings  be  gauged  thereby,  and  my  failures  and  short- 
comings condoned,  or  at  least  kindly  considered. 

Greetings  and  love  to  all, 

RUTH. 


RESPONSORY 

Ges.  Who  can  find  a  virtuous  woman?  for  her  price  is  far  above 
rubies.  The  heart  of  her  husband  doth  safely  trust  in  her,  so  that  he 
shall  have  no  need  of  spoil.  House  and  riches  are  the  inheritance  of 
fathers,  and  a  prudent  wife  is  from  the  Lord.  Whoso  findeth  a  wife 
findeth  a  good  thing,  and  obtaineth  favor  of  the  Lord.  Every  wise 
woman  buildeth  her  house;  but  the  foolish  plucketh  it  down  with  her 
hands.  A  virtuous  woman  is  a  crown  to  .her  husband. — Solomon. 


Get.  If  I  am  engaged?  Surely,  to  the  broom  and  dishpan,  and 
that  old  monarch  the  cook-stove. 

Gev.  I  am  not  engaged,  am  under  no  obligation,  am  as  free  as  the 
robin  on  his  bough  to  fly  whither  ever  he  pleaseth. 

Gew.     Yes,  sir,  I  am  engaged. 

Gex.  Sir,  your  attention  is  too  intimate  and  becoming  embarrass- 
ing to  me.  I  therefore  wish  to  inform  you  that  my  inclinations  are 
tending  in  another  direction.  Therefore  you  must  seek  your  com- 
panion elsewhere,  and  I  wish  you  the  best  success  and  abundant 
happiness.  Sincerely,  .Lou  ISA. 

Gey.  Dear  Sir:  I  don't  feel  inclined  to  accept  a  wooing  substi- 
tute. If  your  estimable  friend  does  not  consider  me  worth  the  wooing 
in  person,  I  surely  am  not  worth  the  winning. 

Heb.  That  is  the  way  with  you  men;  you  don't  understand  us 
women;  you  cannot.  When  you  have  made  up  your  minds,  after 
thinking  of  this  one  and  that  one,  choosing,  selecting,  rejecting,  com- 
paring one  with  the  other,  then  you  make  known  your  desire  with 


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abrupt  and  sudden  avowal,  and  are  offended  and  hurt,  and  indignant, 
perhaps,  that  a  woman  does  not  respond  at  once  to  a  love  that  she 
never  suspected;  does  not  attain  at  a  bound  the  height  to  which  you 
have  been  climbing.  This  is  not  right  nor  just:  for  surely  a  woman's 
affection  is  not  a  thing  to  be  asked  for,  and  to  be  had  for  only  the 
asking. — Longfellow. 

Hec.     When  one  is  truly  in  love,  one  not  only  says  it,  but  shows  it. 

Hed.  You  will  forgive  me,  I  hope,  for  the  sake  of  friendship  be- 
tween us,  which  is  too  true  and  too  sacred  to  be  so  easily  broken. 

Hef.  No,  you  are  angry  with  me,  for  speaking  so  frankly  and 
freely.  It  is  wrong,  I  acknowledge;  for  it  is  the  fault  of  woman  long 
to  be  patient  and  silent, to. wait  until  some  questioning  voice  dissolves 
the  spell  of  silence.  Hence  is  the  inner  life  of  so  many  suffering  women 
sunless  and  silent  and  deep,  like  subterranean  rivers,  running  through 
caverns  of  darkness,  unseen,  unheard  and  unfruitful. 

Heg.     He  is  a  little  chimney  and  heated  hot  in  a  moment. 

Heh.  Truly  I  thank  you  for  this;  how  good  you  have  been  to  me 
always. 

Hej.     You  have  been  in  love. 

Hek.     I'd  want  someone  of  my  own  age. 

Hel.     I  couldn't  ever  think  of  you  in  that  way. 

Hem.     You  mustn't  come  again;  I  don't  like  some  kinds  of  secrets. 

Hen.  No,  it  isn't  my  dream.  My  dream  can  never,  never,  become 
true. 

Hep.     Do  you  think  I  am  trying  to  deceive  you — about  what? 

Heq.     I  don't  believe  I  could  ever  think  of  you  in  that  way. 

Her.  I  don't  know  whether  you  are  sincere  as  yet.  So  for  the 
present  I  will  give  you  the  benefit  of  the  doubt.  I  don't  want  you  to 
kiss  me  as  yet — it  wouldn't  be  the  proper  thing  to  do.  You  must 
respect  a  young  woman's  modesty,  and  understand  that  she  has  an 
invaluable  asset  in  her  dignity. 

THE  OLD  CLOCK  DIAL 

Hes.  Dearest  Simon: — For  that  wonderful  little  marvel  you  sent 
me,  the  Scientific  Dial,  I  thank  you  most  cordially  and  sincerely. 
Reading  the  introduction,  I  have  found  more  in  the  old  clock  dial 
than  I  have  ever  thought  of  or  heard  of  before.  How  little  we  realize 
and  appreciate  the  actuating,  controlling  influences  about  us.  I 
never  before  realized  the  congruence  and  universal  use  of  the  clock, 
nor  the  other  fact  that  that  dial  speaks  all  languages  of  the  world. 
The  same  is  claimed  for  this  new — the  Scientific  Dial,  and  I  believe 
it.  It  is  such  a  novelty  that  I  don't  know  which  to  admire  the  most — 
its  construction  or  contents.  Anyway,  it  is  giving  us  immeasurable 
amusement.  The  boys  and  girls  have  abandoned  their  other  toys 
for  this  one,  deciphering  the  value  of  their  names  and  every  other  that 
they  can  think  of.  The  temptation  was  too  great  even  for  me,  so  I 
have  figured  out  that  your  "sweetheart  is  worth  three  hundred 
thousand  and  fourteen  dollars,  and  that  my  darling  beats  me  more 
than  five  to  one,  his  Scientific  Dial  value  being  $1,600,070.71.  But 
that  is  as  it  should  be,  for  woman's  real  value  may  be  realized  only 


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in  her  relation  with  man.  I  have  also  found  out  that  by  means  of 
the  Dial  code  I  can  order  my  millinery  and  trinkets  directly  from 
Paris,  if  I  want  to;  but  don't  get  scared,  dear,  I  ain't.  Really,  I 
despise  that  kind  of  doing. 

See  if  my  figuring  and  deciphering  are  correct.  I  will  use  the 
Scientific  Dial  as  much  as  possible  in  our  correspondence. 

Kindliest  greetings, 

DORA. 
Het.     Dreams  of  gold  make  young  hearts  old. 

HAVE  NOT  RECIPROCATED 

Hev.  Sir: — Your  assurance  of  love  and  the  proposal  to  marry 
you,  have  been  carefully  and  prayerfully  considered.  In  your  com- 
pany, I  have  also  noticed  your  inclination  for  some  time;  and,  I  think, 
you  have  also  noticed  that  I  have  not  reciprocated.  The  main  reason 
for  this  is  that  you  have  several  times  slighted  your  mother.  You 
have  shown  disregard  and  contempt  of  her  who  has  reared  you, 
nursed  you,  watched  over  you,  and  coddled  you  in  your  infancy  and 
weakness.  She  is  therefore  worthy  of  your  regard,  respect  and  filial 
devotion.  A  young  man  who  in  any  way  disregards  and  slights  his 
mother  will  not  become  a  kind  and  devoted  husband.  My  answer 
must  therefore  be  in  the  negative.  For  as  a  young  man  treats  his 
mother,  so  will  he  eventually  treat  his  wife. 

THROUGH  THE  DRAMSHOP 

Hew.  Sir: — I  hasten  to  inform  you  that  I  esteem  it  a  hazardous 
thing  for  any  young  woman  to  become  the  life-mate  of  a  young  man, 
however  talented  and  promising  in  other  respects  he  may  be,  who 
starts  in  life  through  the  dramshop  and  may  be  seen  at  the  gambling 
table.  The  filthiness  of  these  institutions  poisons  the  system  and 
besmirches  the  character  of  any  young  man.  And,  besides,  your 
passion  for  tobacco,  continuously  chewing,  smoking,  spitting — 
Pshaw!  Your  corpus  has  become  so  saturated  with  poisons  and 
filth  that  your  company  is  undesirable  by  any  respectable  young 
woman  who  is  in  any  way  concerned  about  her  future  home  and 
happiness.  I,  therefore,  respectfully  decline. 

DISGUSTING  PROFANITY 

Hex.  Sir: — Your  profanity  has  disgusted  me.  Your  conversation 
reveals  the  company  which  you  cherish,  and  your  prayers  are  indica- 
tions of  the  god  which  you  worship  and  the  place  you  have  chosen 
for  your  eternal  abode.  As  I  don't  wish  to  meet  you  there,  I  shall 
decline  to  accompany  you  on  the  road  thither. 

THE  FOOL  SAITH 

Hey.  Yes;  a  fool  saith  in  his  heart,  "There  is  no  God."  Such 
a  fool  can  find  no  enjoyment  in  my  company;  nor  would  I  in  his;  for 
our  ways  and  destinies  are  as  far  apart  as  light  is  from  darkness, 
Christ  from  Satan,  Heaven  from  hell. 


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PARENTS  REFUSE 

Jeb.  Dear  Sir: — My  parents  absolutely  refuse  their  consent.  The 
thought  of  our  possible  union  brings  mother  to  tears.  I  can  not  deny 
that  I  feel  a  certain  attraction  toward  you,  though  I  can  not  say  that 
I  am  really  in  love,  as  yet,  but  I  could  not  entertain  any  proposition 
from  you  under  present  conditions;  nor  would  I  lead  you  into  expecta- 
tions that  might  become  disappointing.  I  also  believe  in  the  guidance 
and  paternal  care  of  my  Heavenly  Father,  in  all  matters,  and  partic- 
ularly in  this;  I  therefore  look  upon  this  obstacle  as  a  sign,  that  the 
contemplation  is  not  in  accordance  with  his  good  will.  Anyway, 
were  our  union  according  to  His  will,  He  would  remove  the  obstacle. 

CONDITIONAL  ACCEPTANCE 

Jec.  My  Dearest: — Your  offer  and  proffer  has  been  carefully  con- 
sidered. I  am  convinced  of  your  sincerity  and  earnestness.  I  have 
also  examined  myself  for  some  time,  as  our  association  has  been  so 
intimate  for  some  time  that  our  affection  and  attraction  toward  one 
another  have  naturally  paved  the  way  for  this  mutual  outburst  of 
sentiment  and  sacred  avowals.  Now,  darling,  assuring  you  of  my 
affection  and  love,  I  will  accept  on  one  condition.  I  have  thought 
of  calling  your  attention  to  that  several  times,  but  have  felt  awkward 
and  timid;  and,  perhaps,  it  would  have  been  unbecoming  for  a  young 
woman  to  mention  it,  as  up  to  this  time  our  relation  has  been  only 
that  of  intimate  friendship.  But  now,  since  you  have  made  your 
request,  it  seems  the  proper  time  for  me  to  open  my  heart  to  you 
without  reservation,  as  I  know  of  your  manliness,  your  determination 
and  perseverance  in  doing  what  is  right,  becoming,  benefiting,  ele- 
vating, edifying;  and,  not  the  least  but  the  noblest,  your  forbearance 
and  long  suffering,  assuring  me  that  you  will  not  take  offense. 

Jed.  Now,  darling,  dear,  do  you  know  that  the  tobacco  habit, 
acquired  in  youth,  becomes  a  passion,  leading  good  men  into  bondage? 
Do  you  know  that  the  nicotin,  found  in  the  leaves  of  the  tobacco 
plant,  is  a  poisonous  alkaloid,  which  saturates  the  system?  Do  you 
know  that  this  poison,  and  the  effect  it  has  on  tissues,  becomes  heredi- 
tary, and  thus  affects  and  weakens  offspring?  Thus  coming  genera- 
tions will  be  made  to  suffer  from  indulgences  of  the  present.  You 
and  I  are  old  enough  to  look  at  conditions,  present  and  future,  se- 
riously. For  my  part,  I  realize,  in  part  at  least,  the  responsibility  of 
wifehood  and  motherhood.  I  fully  realize,  too,  that  it  is  the  mother 
who  has  to  endure  the  most  in  nursing  and  taking  care  of  sickly, 
cross  or  deformed  children.  And  as  I  have  had  the  inestimable  ad- 
vantage of  a  Christian  mother,  who  has  concerned  herself  about  the 
virtue  and  purity  of  her  daughters,  I  much  desire  an  equally  clean, 
virtuous  and  pure  husband. 

Jef.  The  condition,  therefore,  of  my  acceptance,  is  this:  That 
you  quit  the  use  of  tobacco  in  all  its  forms.  If  you  are  sincere  in  your 
love,  if  your  many  assurances  and  flatteries  are  expressions  of  genuine 
devotion,  if  you  take  the  view  of  our  present  and  future  welfare  and 
happiness  for  ourselves  and  the  usefulness  for  God  and  society  se- 
riously, then  this  sacrifice — and  I  call  it  a  sacrifice  for  me — should  be 


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easy,  and  determined  efforts  made.  It  will  take  at  least  a  year  to 
eradicate  from  your  system  the  poison  already  contracted,  therefore 
at  any  time  a  year  hence  you  may  arrange  our  wedding  feast,  and  I 
shall  regard  myself  unreservedly  yours.  With  love  and  devotion  I 
am  and  forever  shall  be  your  sweetheart, 

ALVINA. 

UNFEIGNED  FAITH  AND  PURITY 

Jeg.  Dearest  Theodore: — I  thank  you  most  sincerely  for  kind 
attention  and  the  many  flattering  epithets  and  assurances  of  love  and 
devotion.  It  is  now  important  that  we  should  turn  our  minds  to 
more  serious  phases  of  life  and  the  meaning  of  our  existence  in  this 
world,  and  the  purpose  of  that  existence.  We  believe  in  Providence, 
don't  we,  dear? 

Jeh.  Both  of  us  have  the  advantage  and  benefit  of  Christian 
parents.  I  have  listened  to  my  mother's  fervent  prayers  ever  since 
I  can  remember,  and  my  father's  prayers  too.  How  often  have  I 
heard  mother  pray,  sometimes  in  tears,  that  her  children  may  con- 
tinue her  Christian  life  in  faith;  and  that  they  may  grow  stronger 
through  grace  to  the  glory  of  God,  than  she  has  been. 

Jej.  She  has  often  repeated  the  words  of  Paul  the  apostle  to 
Timothy:  "I  call  to  remembrance  the  unfeigned  faith  that  is  in  thee, 
which  dwelt  first  in  thy  grandmother  Lois,  and  thy  mother  Eunice; 
and  I  am  persuaded  that  in  thee  also,  wherefore  I  put  thee  in  remem- 
brance that  thou  stir  up  the  gift  of  God."  She  has  continued  in  the 
faith  of  her  mother,  and  so  beautifully  embellished  her  life  in  the  life 
of  her  own;  and  now  it  is  her  desire  and  daily  prayer,  that  her  faith 
and  Christian  life  shall  be  continued  and  embellished  in  her  children, 
to  the  glory  of  God  and  the  elevation  of  humanity,  to  better  use  and 
greater  enjoyment  in  this  life  of  the  bounteous  blessings  bestowed 
upon  us  by  our  beneficent  Heavenly  Father.  You  can  well  under- 
stand, how  these  prayers  and  admonitions  by  a  saintly,  loving  mother 
have  impressed  me  with  a  desire  to  realize  and  carry  into  effect  and 
development  in  my  life,  and  resulting  and  growing  out  of  my  life  or 
very  existence  the  ideals  cherished  by  her,  rather  advancing  than 
retrograding,  or  reaching  merely  to  her  level.  Think  of  this. 

Jek.  Tell  me  frankly,  sincerely,  as  in  the  sight  of  God,  your  own 
standing  and  life  ideals  in  this  respect.  Can  I  expect  in  you  a  life 
companion  who  has  this  inborn  tendency  and  disposition  by  the 
Spirit  of  God,  a  burning  desire  to  receive  God's  highest  and  noblest 
blessings  in  order  to  become  a  blessing  to  our  age,  reverting  to  God 
in  praise  and  glory  and  honor  to  His  holy  name? 

THE  BLOOM  INTACT 

Jel.  Just  one  other  thing.  I  recognize  and  appreciate  your 
religious  ancestry.  I  know  that  your  parents  have  endeavored  to 
rear  a  pure  and  virtuous  son.  But  has  your  craft  been  piloted  safely 
by  the  cliffs  and  rocks  into  the  haven  of  ripe  manhood  without 
scratches  and  wounds,  leaving  life-long  scars  and  tormenting  mem- 
ories, defiling,  perhaps,  trusting  innocence?  A  young  woman,  who 


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has  been  reared  by  a  saintly  mother  in  virtue  and  purity  of  mind 
and  body  and  like  the  virgin  grapevine  would  offer  its  first  fruit  with 
bloom  intact  to  its  husbandman,  has  she  not  the  right  to  claim  in 
return  consideration  of  similar  kind?  We  are  old  enough,  and  should 
have  intelligence  enough,  to  consider  seriously  the  problems  of  life. 
Jem.  t- 1  have  decided  upon  certain  ideals  and  qualifications  with 
reference  to  my  life-mate  and  I  am  praying  daily  to  God  to  lead  me 
to  my  destiny,  as  He  has  it  mapped  out  for  me.  I  firmly  believe  that 
He  will  lead  me  tenderly  to  the  plot  in  His  vineyard,  reserved  for  me, 
in  His  good  and  acceptable  time.  Until  then,  I  have  my  Sunday- 
school  class,  which  is  steadily  growing  in  numbers  and  interest. 


Beautiful  Spring — An  emblem  of  youth. 

Jen.  This  communication  is  longer  than  I  at  first  intended;  but 
what  I  have  to  say  had  better  be  said  now.  I  think  it  will  help  us 
both  to  come  to  some  conclusion,  either  one  way  or  the  other. 

Your  sincere  friend, 

NAOMI. 
CAUSE  OF  FEMALE  AILMENTS 

Jep.  Dear  Charles: — I  hasten  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  your 
letter.  It  is  somewhat  of  a  surprise  to  me,  the  way  you  state  your 
feelings  and  affection  toward  me;  but  this  I  know,  that  I  have  not 
in  any  way,  by  look  or  act,  aroused  these  sentiments. 

Jeq.  I  am  glad  to  learn  that  you  gave  yourself  to  Christ  during 
the  revival  meetings  in  your  town.  And  I  rejoice  to  greet  you  and  to 
consider  you  a  Christian  friend.  But  your  request  to  marry  you  is 
entirely  another  matter.  In  the  first  place,  I  don't  know  what  effect 
your  life  in  sin  has  had  on  your  body — though  your  soul  has  now 
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Jer.  I  heard  in  a  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  lecture 
recently  that  eighty  per  cent  of  female  ailments  and  diseases  among 
married  women,  requiring  surgical  operation,  were  caused  by  hus- 
bands having  led  an  immoral  life  in  their  youth.  How  terrible!  I 
can  think  of  wifehood  and  motherhood  without  anxiety,  but  quiver 
at  the  thought  of  the  operation  table  or  the  divorce-court.  Though 
I  am  yet  free  to  accept  or  reject,  I  shall  do  neither  at  the  present,  but 
will  abide  further  development.  Cling  to  the  Rock  of  Ages,  and 
commit  yourself  unreservedly  unto  the  blessed  Saviour.  He  is  a 
Healer  and  Saviour  of  both  soul  and  body. 

Your  sincere  friend,  LOTTIE. 

Jes.  You  propose  Kaselana  for  our  wedding,  but  that  date  is  not 
suitable  for  me.  Lamelana  will  suit  my  conditions  better. 


Our  Boys. 


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Jet.     THE  LEAP-YEAR  CODE 

This  chapter  of  the  Scientific  Dial  Code  has  been  suggested  by 
three  incidents  of  so  much  importance  that  they  demand  serious 
attention. 

Jev.     THE  STORK  verms  THE  POODLE-DOG 

Is  the  proper  heading  of  the  first  incident. 

Jew.  An  elderly  lady,  belonging  to  the  Old  Maid  Class,  had  a 
poodle  dog,  which  she  fondled  and  cuddled  and  caressed  most  ten- 
derly, decorating  him  with  ribbons  and  various  ornaments,  which 
she  would  be  engaged  in  changing  and  rearranging  for  hours  at  a 
time,  seemingly  forgetting  everything  else. 

Jex.  A  gentleman,  having  noticed  this  for  some  time,  spoke 
harshly  of  her,  denouncing  her  as  foolish,  perverted,  childish,  and 
using  other  similar  epithets. 

Jey.  A  visiting  lady,  the  sister  to  the  harsh  gentleman,  hearing 
this,  and  having  become  acquainted  with  the  derided  lady,  one  day 
took  her  brother  to  task  for  his  sneering  epithets,  saying  in  fact: 

Keb.  "Frank,  how  little  you  understand  the  real  nature,  feeling, 
sentiment  and  affection  of  women.  That  fondling,  coddling,  car- 
essing, and,  perhaps,  as  you  contend,  kissing  of  the  poodle  dog,  is 
simply  the  outburst  of  suppressed  or  inclosed  and  shut-up  motherly 
affection  and  love;  it  is  feminine  motherly  instinct  just  as  much  as 
the  fondling  of  the  doll  by  your  little  darling  daughter  is  feminine, 
motherly  instinct.  Why  don't  James  and  George  fondle  dolls  too? 
They  follow  their  masculine  instinct  and  play  railroads  and  horse 
racing.  Now,  Frank,  don't  you  see? 

Kec.  "Much  rather  would  this  poor  lady  have  had  a  baby,  a 
loving  and  lovely  child  of  her  own  to  caress  and  fondle.  But  her 
opportunity  has  passed  her  by;  her  chance  is  gone,  lost;  she  has  been 
left  behind.  Instead  of  this  sneering  and  ridicule  of  yours,  Frank, 
show  her  sympathy." 

Ked.  "But  she  may  have  had  many  and  excellent  proposals,  but  has 
refused,  and  then  she  has  no  one  but  herself  to  blame,"  maintained 
Frank. 

Kef.  "She  may  and  she  may  not,"  reproved  Mrs.  B.  "She  may 
have  had  her  eye  on  some  young  man,  an  ideal  in  her  estimation, 
and  she  waited  for  him  to  propose.  He  may  have  shown  her  some 
attention,  justifying  her  anticipation.  But  her  ideal  did  not  pro- 
pose, and  custom  has  made  it  undignified  for  women  to  inquire,  to 
ascertain.  Had  custom  and  public  sentiment  allowed  her  to  propose, 
or  in  some  way  to  make  known  her  feeling  toward  this  young  man, 
she  might  have  found  ready  response;  or  a  refusal  from  him  would 
have  relieved  her,  and  she  could  have  turned  her  attention  in  another 
direction." 

Keg.  "You  cannot  imagine  the  disappointment  of  this  woman. 
She  has  been  ambitious  and  energetic.  In  her  younger  days,  she 
may  have  fancied  herself  the  proud  mother  of  a  statesman  like 
Sumner  or  Gladstone,  an  orator  like  Daniel  Webster  or  Wendell 


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Phillips,  an  inventor  like  Thomas  Edison  or  Marconi,  a  soldier 
like  U.  S.  Grant  or  von  Moltke,  a  preacher  like  Talmage  or  Bishop 
Ireland;  or,  at  least,  a  successful  merchant  or  a  progressive  farmer. 

Keh.  "You  have  no  idea  how  in  her  girlhood  innocence  she 
planned  her  home,  caressed,  encouraged  and  assisted  her  anticipated 
husband,  and  how  she  raised  and  schooled  her  children. 

Kej.  "Lost!  Lost!!  All  this  is  lost  to  her.  All  these  fancies 
were  at  one  time  in  her  life  possibilities;  now  they  are  bygone  dreams. 
I  once  heard  a  woman  in  this  perdition  say,  'No  hope;'  and  I  noticed 
something,  glittering  like  a  diamond,  rolling  down  her  pale  cheeks. 

Kek.  "Oh,  that  lamentable,  melancholy,  despairing,  sobbing  out- 
burst, 'No  Hope!'  Think  what  it  means  for  a  woman  and  have 
compassion  with  her,  and  throw  a  ray  of  sunshine  on  her  path  when 
you  can." 

Kel.  These  are  heart  touching  words,  burning  with  the  fervent 
animation  of  womanhood,  wifehood,  motherhood. 

Kem.  The  Scientific  Dial  Code  System  offers  a  remedy.  It 
would  fall  short  of  its  purpose  and  aim  if  it  did  not. 

Ken.     The  second  instance  now  follows,  and  it  is  self-explaining. 

Kep.     ALL-CONQUERING  LOVE 

Keq.  "Set  me  as  a  seal  upon  thine  heart,  as  a  seal  upon  thine 
arm;  for  love  is  strong  as  death;  jealousy  is  cruel  as  the  grave  (sheol); 
the  coals  thereof  are  coals  of  fire,  which  hath  a  most  vehement  flame." 

Ker.  "Many  waters  cannot  quench  love,  neither  can  the  floods 
drown  it:  if  a  man  would  give  all  his  substance  of  his  house  for  love, 
it  would  be  utterly  contemned." 

Kes.  "I  am  a  wall,  and  my  breasts  like  towers;  then  was  I  in  his 
eyes  as  one  that  found  favor." 

Ket.  "My  vineyard,  which  is  mine,  is  before  me;  thou,  O  Solo- 
mon, must  have  a  thousand thou  that  dwellest  in  the  gardens. 

Make  haste,  my  beloved,  and  be  thou  like  to  a  roe  or  to  a  young 

hart  upon  the  mountains  of  spices." — Solomon's  Songs,  Chapter  8. 

Kev.     BEAUTIFUL  ILLUSTRATION 

Kew.  The  power  of  genuine  love  and  the  efficacy  of  true,  noble, 
loyal  hearts  are  beautifully  demonstrated  in  the  following  brief 
sketch. 

Kex.     True  love  is  never  blind,  though  often  so  misjudged. 

Key.  The  story  of  a  frail  woman  marrying  a  blind  man,  nearly 
twenty  years  her  senior,  both  without  means  for  their  support,  yet 
raising  a  family  of  children,  all  well  fed  and  well  clothed,  and,  besides, 
buying  real  estate  and  accumulating  wealth — not  by  speculation, 
chances  in  lotteries  or  the  kind,  but  by  day  labor  at  small  wages. 

Leb.     How  WAS  IT  DONE? 

Lee.     The  following  pages  tell  the  simple  story: 
Led.     August    Olson,    known    as   the    "Blind    Olson"    (Swedish, 
"Blinde  Olson"),  was  for  ten  years  (from  1888  to  1898)  an  inmate  in 


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the  Swedish  Home  of  Mercy  at  Bowmanville,  Chicago,  Illinois, 
having  been  admitted  into  this  institution  as  an  invalid  and  a  desti- 
tute. 

Lef.  Mrs.  Betty  Olson  (Swedish  Bengta)  was  admitted  into  the 
Swedish  Covenant  Hospital  (situated  near  the  Home  of  Mercy),  in 
May,  1890,  as  an  invalid.  She  regained  health  and  strength  and  was 
discharged  in  February,  1891. 

Leg.  But  she  was  confined  to  her  bed  for  several  months  during 
the  first  period  of  her  infirmity  in  the  hospital. 

Leh.  Mr.  Olson  had  committed  to  memory  many  passages  of 
Scripture  and  Gospel  hymns,  while  having  the  use  of  his  eyes. 

Lej.  And  his  memory  became  even  more  nimble,  receptive  and 
retentive,  in  his  blind  state. 

Lek.     He,  therefore,  spent  many  an  hour  in  the  invalids'  wards. 

Lei.      Comforting,  encouraging,  praying  and  singing. 

Lem.    This  greatly  delighted  the  inmates. 

Len.     It  relieved  them, 

Lep.  And  helped  them  to  forget  their  pain  or  misery  for  the 
while, 

Leq.     And  made  the  dreary  hours  shorter. 

Ler.      One  of  the  most  attentive  listeners  was  our  Bengta, 

Les.      And  she  would  not  forget  to  say  a  word  of  appreciation. 

Let.      A  thank  you  very  much, 

Lev.     God  bless  you,  brother  Olson  ( ), 

Lew.    Call  again, 

Lex.     Call  often. 

Ley.     "The  sound  of  the  familiar  steps  was  eagerly  longed  for" 

Meb.     She  writes. 

Mec.     Being  able  to  sit  up 

Med.     By  her  bed, 

Mef .     She  would  entertain  her  friend 

Meg.     By  reading  magazine  articles  and 

Meh.    By  reading  newspaper  articles,  and 

Mej.     By  reading  passages  of  Scripture,  and 

Mek.     By  reading  new  songs  and  hymns  that  were  sung  in 

Mel.     Revival  meetings. 

Mem.  These  he  soon  learned  by  heart  and  would  then 

Men.    Entertain  her  in  return 

Mep.     By  singing  them.     ( ) 

Meq.     So  PASSED  THE  AUTUMN  AND 

Mer.  So  passed  the  winter  until  February  ( )  when 

Met.  Betty  ( )  left  the  hospital  and 

Mev.  Went  to  San  Jose,  California. 

Mew.  But  no  one  missed  her  more  than  the  blind  Olson,  for 

Mex.  No  one  had  entertained  him  as  she  did. 

Mey.     THREE  YEARS  PASSED 

Neb.  During  that  time,  correspondence  was  carried  on  between 
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Nee.      As  Christian  friends.     ( )     Olson  had  a  room 

mate,  Carlson,  by  name,  a  cripple  and  invalid,  who  wrote 

Ned.     To  Olson's  dictation. 

Nef.      Betty  had  become  the  favorite  maidservant  in 

Neg.     A  wealthy  family  in  San  Jose,  with 

Neh.     A  salary  of  forty  dollars  ( )  per  month. 

Nej.  Of  this  she  sent  five  dollars  per  month  ( )  reg- 
ularly to  her  father  in  Sweden  ( ). 

Nek.     On  her  return  from  Sweden  ( )  in  1897,  (....) 

Nel.      She  came  through  Chicago  ( ), 

Nem.    At  the  same  time  visiting  the  hospital  ( ),  where 

she  had  been  an  inmate  ( ),  and 

Nen.     Seeing  also  her  old  friend,  the  blind  Olson  ( ). 

Nep.     The  attraction  toward  one  another  had  grown  stronger — 

Neq.     It  had  become  more  than  intimate  friendship, 

Ner.      It  had  become  fervid,  unquenchable  love. 

Nes.      They  talked  the  matter  over,  and 

Net.  Agreed  to  submit Jtheir*case  and  themselves,  unreservedly 
to  the  will  and  guidance  of  God.  He  could  open  a  way,  if,  indeed, 
their  affection  for  one  another  were  imbued  by  Him. 

Nev.  So  they  departed,  Betty  again  started  for  California,  and 
found  employment  in  Oakland.  ( ) 

New.    Here  she  joined  the  Swedish  Mission  Church  ( ) 

and  was  soon  appointed  deaconess  ( ),  which  indicates  her 

standing  and  earnestness  and  zeal  as  a  Christian. 

Nex.  Olson  had  fifty  dollars  (....)>  which  a  certain  person  had 
been  owing  him  for  many  years,  and 

Ney.     The  collection  of  the  same  was  doubtful. 

Peb.  He,  therefore,  made  it  a  condition  in  his  prayers  and  plead- 
ing with  God,  that  if  this  amount  were  voluntarily  paid  to  him,  and 

Pec.  This  amount  being  about  the  second-class  fare  to  California, 
( )  then  it  would  indicate  God's  will  for  him  to  marry  Betty. 

Ped.  But  if  this  money  were  not  to  come,  then  he  would  consider 
that  an  indication  that  their  desire  did  not  meet  with  God's  favor. 

Pef.  The  money  ($50)  was  paid  in  January,  1898,  and  with  it 
came  the  assurance  which  hejhad  been  praying  for. 

Peg.  He  now  informed  his  fiancee  that  God  had  made  it  clear  to 
his  mind  that  they  should  marry  and  that  he  wanted  to  come  to  Oak- 
land the  following  summer. 

Peh.  This  news  almost  stunned  Betty.  How  could  she  now 
save  money  for  his  ticket  and  for  furniture  and  other  things  needed 
in  a  family? 

Pej.      "O  God,"  she  prayed,  "what  shall  become  of  us? 

Pek.  "For  we  are  both  helpless.  O  God,  place  some  hindrance 
in  his  way  and 

Pel.      "Stop  him  from  coming  if  our  union  is  not  in  accordance  with 

thine  will" "For  I  had  been  very  sickly  up  to  the  time  of  our 

marriage,"  she  writes.     She  had  hardly  been  able  to  support  herself 
for  lengthy  periods.     How  would  she  be  able  to  support  a  family? 

Pern.    She  had  a  plan,  however.     Olson,  though  totally  blind, 


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Pen.  Could  rock  a  washtub,  and 

Pep.  He  could  also  rock  a  cradle,  and 

Peq.  He  could  rock  both  washtub  and  cradle  at  the  same  time. 

Per.  Thus  assisted  by  her  prospective  blind  husband,  she  could 
make  a  living  by  washing  and  ironing. 

Pes.  Betty's  assurance  came  to  her  in  April,  1898. 

Pet.  She  then  left  her  place  as  a  domestic  and  worked  by  the  day, 

Pev.  Doing  housecleaning  and  washing. 

Pew.  A  few  pieces  of  furniture  were  purchased. 

Pex.     OLSON  ARRIVED  JUNE  24,  1898 

Pey.      Betty  met  him  at  the  station  and 
Qeb.     Conducted  him  to  a  room, 
Qec.      Previously  secured. 

THE  REAL  CRISIS  HAD  Now  COME 

Qed.  How  would  it  look  for  a  young  lady  to  lead  an  old,  blind 
sweetheart  around? 

Gef .  Could  they  secure  a  marriage  license,  Olson  being  blind  and 
helpless  and  penniless? 

Qeg.     Could  any  minister  be  found  who  would  marry  them? 

Qeh.  Her  own  minister  hesitated.  When  he  heard  that  the  blind 
Olson  was  to  come,  and  suspecting  that  he  would  be  asked  to  offi- 
ciate, he  called  his  deacons  together  and  asked  their  opinion  in  the 
matter. 

Qej.  These  wise  men  of  the  church  advised  their  pastor  to  refuse 
his  services. 

Qek.     But  a  committee  was  appointed  to  see  Miss  Betty, 

Gel.      To  promise  money  for  a  ticket  ( ) 

Gem.    To  send  Olson  back  to  Chicago, 

Qen.     To  use  all  their  persuasiveness  and  Christian  influence 

Qep.     To  convince  her  of  her  foolishness  and  risk 

Qeq.     In  marrying  a  "blind  old  man." 

Qer.      "We  will  send  him  right  back  to  Chicago,"  ( ) 

Qes.      They  said,  cheeringly. 

Qet.     BUT  BETTY  HAD  A  MIND  OF  HER  OWN 

Qev.  Her  beloved  arrived  at  eight  o'clock  ( )  in  the  evening, 

Qew.  She  met  him  and  conducted  him  to  a  lodging  place, 

Qex.  License  was  secured  without  suspected  difficulty, 

Qey.  A  Methodist  minister 

Reb.  Performed  the  sacred  ceremony, 

Rec.  And  before  people  really  knew 

Red.  What  Betty  was  about, 

Ref.  She  had  become  a  bride. 

Reg.     A  FLAT  WAS  LEASED  AND  A  LAUNDRY  STARTED 

Reh.  Olson  attended  to  the  washing  machine  and  turned  the 
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Rej.     THIS  WENT  ON  FOR  ABOUT  THREE  YEARS 

Rek.  But  had  to  be  abandoned, 

Rel.  Because  wood  and  coal  were  high  and  prices  for  washing  low, 

Rem.  And  they  found  it  impossible 

Ren.  To  compete  with  the  steam  laundries.     ( ) 

Rep.  In  the  meantime  their  first  child,  Joseph,  was  born. 

Req.     IN   1904  THEY  BOUGHT  PROPERTY  ON  GLEN  AVENUE, 
.,    OAKLAND 

Rer.  Fifty  dollars  ( )  was  required  to  make  the  first  pay- 
ment, but 

Res.     They  had  only  ten  dollars  ( )  in  cash,  therefore 

Ret.      Had  to  borrow  forty  dollars  ( ) 

Rev.  The  price  of  the  property  was  $850,  to  be  paid  in  monthly 
instalments. 

Rew.    Again  a  step  by  many  considered  foolish. 

Rex.  These  silly,  shortsighted  people,  how  will  they  ever  pay 
the  interest,  much  less  meet  the  monthly  instalments? 

Rey.     But  they  did  make  good. 

Seb.      With  improvements  of  the  house  and  the  street 

Sec.      The  property  cost  them  about  $1,500  ( ),  but 

Sed.      It  is  worth  all  of  $2,500  ( ). 

Sef.  In  1902,  Mrs.  Olson  commenced  house  cleaning  and  wash- 
ing in  families. 

Seg.      Her  usual  wages  have  been  $2.00  per  day  and  carfare. 

Seh.  But  she  has  taken  Saturdays  free  to  attend  to  her  own 
housework. 

Sej.       Thus  she  has  earned  about  $10.00  per  week. 

Sek.      Though  some  weeks  considerably  more, 

Sel.       She  having  taken  some  washing  home,  and 

Sem.     Doing  washing  and  ironing  mornings  and  evenings. 

Sen.      Her  strict  honesty  in  her  work, 

Sep.      Her  cleanliness  and  neatness  have  gained  for  her  the 

Seq.  Confidence  and  sympathy  and  good  will  wherever  her  ser- 
vices have  been  solicited. 

Ser.  How  this  frail  woman  has  been  able  to  bear  four  children 
and  do  all  this  work  besides,  is  a  mystery. 

Ses.  She  has  forced  herself  through  prejudice,  criticism  and 
opposition;  yet  she  has  neither  shirked  motherhood  nor  any  other 
obligation  or  duty. 

Set.     A  BLESSING  IN  THE  GUISE  OF  A  SERIOUS  ACCIDENT 

Sev.  Though  generally  fortunate  and  prosperous, 

Sew.  Their  paternal  hearts  have  been  rent  by  sorrow  and  anguish. 

Sex.  Their  favorite  son,  Floyd,  came  very  nearly  being  killed. 

Sey.  It  happened  in  this  way: 

Teb.  Floyd  was  sent  some  distance  after  milk 

Tec.  At  8  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  May  seventeenth,  1911. 

Ted.  It  was  a  dark  evening. 


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Tef.  Just  as  the  boy  stepped  off  the  sidewalk  to  cross  the  street, 
he  stepped  into  the  glare  of  an  automobile  which  he  had  not  pre- 
viously observed;  and 

Teg.      The  motive  power  being  electricity,  it  was  soundless. 

Teh.  Neither  did  the  driver  observe  the  boy,  until  he  stepped 
into  the  light,  but  then 

Tej.      It  was  too  close  to  the  boy  to  swing  the  car  away  from  him. 


Blind  August  Olson  and  his  family. 

Tek.  The  boy  was  struck  on  the  side  and  thrown  violently  on  the 
sidewalk, 

Tel.  Receiving  three  concussions  ( ),  one  behind  the  ear 

and  two  on  his  back.  ( ) 

Tern.    The  driver  was  a  lady  and 

Ten.     She  had  a  lady  companion,  and 

Tep.     They  immediately  stopped  and  returned 


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Teq.  To  see  about  the  child, 

Ter.  Whom  they  tenderly  brought  home  to  the  mother, 

Tes.  Summoned  a  doctor  and 

Tet.  Promised  to  pay  all  expenses  in  any  hospital. 

Tev.  But  the  tenderly  loving  mother  insisted  that  their  home 
should  be  the  hospital  and  that  she  would  be  the  nurse  herself. 

Tew.  Now  becoming  more  intimately  acquainted  with  the  Olson 
family, 

Tex.  Which  they  learned  to  love  and  respect,  an  d 


Baby  Emil,  a  later  addition  to 
the  family. 


Tey.  Finding  that  a  mortgage  of  five  hundred  dollars 

Veb.  Beclouded  the  title  to  their  little  home, 

Vec.  The  matter  became  the  subject  of  family  conference  in  the 

home  of  these  wealthy  women, 

Ved.  Resulting  in  the  payment  of  the  mortgage,  besides  the 

Vef .  Payment  of  the  doctor's  bill  and  the  mother  for  the  nursing 
of  her  child; 

Veg.  One  happy  day  surprising  the  astonished  family 

Veh.  By  presenting  to  them  the 

Vej.  Canceled  mortgage, 

Vek.  Having  removed  the  encumbrance. 

Vel.  We  can  more  easily  imagine  than  describe 

Vem.  The  rejoicing  and  gratitude  of  this 

Ven.  Contented  and  happy  family,  now 


The  Olson  home,  No.  4107  Glennr  Avenue,  Oakland,  California.     Little  Olga  is  missing.    She 
has  departed  to  live  with  the  angels.     Baby  Emil  has  taken  her  place. 


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Vep.     Doubly  blessed  they  were, 

Veq.     Their  darling  son  restored  to  health, 

Ver.      Unblemished;  and 

Ves.      Their  cozy,  lovely  home  restored  to  them. 

Vet.      It  almost  seemed  too  good  and  too  magnanimous  to  be  true. 

Vev.  For  thirteen  years  this  God-loving  and  God-trusting  woman 
has  worked  and  saved  to  establish  a  home,  during  which  time  she 
has  raised  four  children,  and,  now,  she  lives  in  an  unencumbered 
home  of  her  own. 

Her  husband,  though  blind,  can  cook  a  good  meal;  he  can  hone 
and  strop  his  razor  and  shave  himself,  thus  rendering  much  assistance. 

Vew.  Her  oldest  son,  Joseph,  now  eleven  years  old,  distributes 
about  100  newspapers  daily,  for  which  he  receives  four  dollars  per 
month,  and  an  additional  dollar  per  month  for  collecting.  Out  of 
this  he  pays  his  brother  Floyd  one  dollar  per  month  for  his  assistance 
in  the  business. 

Vex.     AMUSING  CLEVERNESS 

Vey.     "You  have  never  seen  your  wife,"  I  said  to  Olson. 

Web.    "No,  sir,  I  have  not," 

Wee.    He  answered,  reluctantly. 

Wed.  "How  can  you  love  a  woman  whom  you  cannot  see  and 
never  have  seen?"  I  asked. 

Wef.     "Oh,  I  know  how  she  looks," 

Weg.    He  answered  with  much  concern; 

Weh.  "She  is  the  prettiest  looking  and  loveliest  woman  in  the 
world;  and  I  know  the  looks  of  my  children,  too,  and  of  our  friends 
and  acquaintances  as  well;  and  I  don't  miss  it  much." 

Wej.  This  he  said  in  a  tone  and  with  an  expression  that  was  con- 
vincing. 

Wek.  He  has  mind-pictures  of  his  wife,  his  children  and  his 
friends,  just  as  we  have  of  ours  in  their  absence. 


Wei.     THE  ROBIN  REDBREAST 

We  will  introduce  the  code  department  of  this  chapter  by  relating 
an  interesting  occurrence  which  happened  a  number  of  years  ago. 
It  will  be  related  in  code  form,  so  that  parts  or  sentences  thereof 
may  be  designated  or  referred  to  in  code  correspondence. 

Wem.     FROM  FRIENDSHIP  TO  LOVE 

Wen.  Willie  and  Hilma  were  both  servants  on  farms,  about  one- 
half  mile  apart. 

Wep.  Willie  made  frequent  visits  to  Jones',  where  Hilma  worked, 
resulting  in  mutual,  though  unexpressed  love. 

Wer.  Hilma  expected  Willie  to  express  his  feelings  toward  her 
in  some  way;  and,  with  the  ingenuity  of  woman,  she  would  lead  the 
conversation  into  realms  of  lovers  and  engagements,  and  weddings 
and  honeymoons,  etc.,  to  which  Willie  listened  with  much  interest, 


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sometimes  asking  a  question,  but  there  he  stopped,  and  stopped 
short  of  Hilma's  cherished  anticipation. 

Wes.  One  Sunday  evening  Hilma  thought,  well,  she  really  felt, 

that  Willie  was  trying  very  hard  to  say  something to  say  just 

those  deciding  words,  so  often  turned  over  in  her  mind — but  he 
didn't. 

Wet.  "Well,  I'll  have  to  go/'  he  said  repeatedly,  twisting  and 
rolling  his  cap  rather  comically,  and  she  expected  every  moment 
the  proposal  to  hatch  out,  but  each  time  the  thing  slipped  off,  some- 
how, in  another  direction.  Finally,  Willie  touched  the  doorknob, 
the  door  opened,  and  much  to  Hilma's  disappointment,  he  hardly 
said  'good-night'  to  her  as  he  used  to  do. 

Wev.  She  followed  him  to  the  gate,  and  when  he  tried  to  open  it, 
she  held  back  and  said: 

Wew.     "Willie,  didn't  you  intend  to  say  something,  but  couldn't?" 

Wex.  "Oh,  I  don't  know;  nothing  particular,"  answered  Willie, 
somewhat  puzzled. 

Wey.  "Yes,  sure,"  insisted  Hilma,  "you  intended  to  say  some- 
thing, but  couldn't  or  didn't." 

Xeb.  "Well,  what  do  you  think  I  would  have  said  if  I  had  said  it, 
Hilma?" 

Xec.  "Will  you  marry  me?"  she  answered  with  a  bewitching 
smile,  such  as  is  possible  only  by  a  lovely  loving  maiden. 

Xed.     "What  makes  you  think  so?"  queried  Willie,  confused. 

Xef.  "Because  you  come  to  see  me  so  often,"  answered  Hilma, 
sweetly  and  artlessly. 

Here  we  have  to  drop  the  curtain  for  a  while.  Someway  or  some- 
how Willie  slipped  out  of  the  gate  and  went  home  without  giving 
Hilma  an  answer. 

Xeg.  But  Willie  could  not  sleep.  "What  a  fool,  a  dunce,  a  coward 
I  am,"  he  said  to  himself.  "Hilma  was  right,  she  understood  me, 

she  wanted  to  help  me  out  of  my  predicament she  did 

Such  an  unworthy  coward,  fool idiot Well,  my  chance 

is  gone.  That  noble,  sensible  lady  can  have  no  respect,  much  less 
to  love  such  a  dunce  as  I.  I  shall  be  ashamed  to  meet  her,  to  see 
her  charming  lovely  face  any  more.  Any  kind  of  treatment  is  well 
deserved Oh,  if  I  only  had! " 

Xeh.     Thus  he  kept  on,  reproving,  accusing,  bewailing. 

Xej.      And  Hilma,  well,  she  fared  no  better. 

Xek.  "Of  course,  Willie  is  too  much  of  a  gentleman  ever  to  look 
at  such  a  frivolous  flirt  as  I  am,"  she  sighed,  wetting  her  pillow  with 
tears.  "Oh,  how  foolish,  silly,  contemptible,  shameful  was  this 
attitude  of  a  girl  to  treat  an  honorable,  well-bred,  high-minded  young 
gentleman  the  way  I  did  tonight.  Oh,  he  will  never  degrade  himself 
to  come  near  enough  to  give  me  a  chance  to  apologize,  even. 
I  can  see  him  look  at  me  with  contempt  and  scorn  now.  Rose,  over 
there,  will  have  him  all  to  herself  now.  She  has  been  looking  after 

him,  I  know,  but  he  has  ever  been  true  to  me always  shown  a 

preference  for  me;  but  it  is  all  off  now all  lost lost  forever. 

Xel.  "Wonder  if  he  will  tell  about  it!  tell  what  a  frivolous  flirt 
I  am.  I  am  ashamed  to  see  anybody — to  meet  anybody.  Oh,  I 


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wish  I  was  dead!     Life  after  this  will  have  no  meaning will 

have  no  interest there  is  no  future  for  me.     Oh,  dear;  oh,  dear 

Oh  my  heart my  head." 

Xem.     Thus  wailed  poor  Hilma. 

Xen.     The  following  day  very  much  resembled  the  night. 

Xep.  But  she  kept  looking  toward  Willie's  place  constantly. 
She  couldn't  help  herself. 

Xeq.  At  eventide,  Willie  hurried  with  his  chores  as  never  before. 
He  was  going  to  see  Hilma,  probably  for  the  last  time,  but  he  would 
see  her  once  more,  anyhow. 

Xer.  He  would  explain.  He  would  confess.  He  would  apolo- 
gize. 

Xes.     THE  CURTAIN  LIFTED 

Xet.  Willie  is  at  the  gate.  Hilma,  having  been  constantly 
longing,  waiting,  meets  him. 

Xev.  "Good 'evening,  Willie.  I  thought  I'd  never  see  you  any 
more,"  she  said  and  hid  her  face  in  the  apron,  weeping. 


Innocence. 


We  protest! 


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Xew.  "Yes,  1  know  what  an  idiot  and  a  coward  I  was  last  night 
and  how  cruelly  I  wounded  your  tender  feelings,  and  I  have  now 
come  to  confess  and  to  apologize." 

Xex.     "Oh,  Willie,"  cried  Hilma,  half  weeping  and  half  laughing. 

Xey.  "Yes,  your  feminine  instinct  was  correct.  You  tried  to 
meet  me  halfway,  but  I  was  such  a  dunce  to  turn  you  down.  Hilma, 
dearest,  sweetest,  loveliest  among  women,  will  you,  can  you  forgive 
me?" 

Yeb.  "Oh,  Willie!  if  I  can if  I  will.  ."  she  hesitated,  almost 

afraid  to  say  another  word. 

Yec.  "Yes,  if  you  will,  if  you  can;  it  now  rests  upon  just  that 
'if,'"  Willie  repeated  with  much  earnestness. 

Yed.  "Do  you  mean  to  say  that  you  would  still  consider  me  a 
friend?"  asked  Hilma,  sighing. 

Yef.  "As  a  friend,"  repeated  Willie;  "if  I  hadn't  been  an  idiot, 
a  dunce,  a  coward  last  night,  you  would  have  been  my  sweetheart, 
my  betrothed  today." 

Yeg.  "Do  you  love  me  still,  really,  honestly,  Willie?"  Hilma 
asked  with  a  suppressed,  hardly  audible  voice. 

Yeh.  "More  than  ever if  I  may if  my  treatment  of 

you  last  night  did  not  blast  to  fathoms  every  vestige  of  love  and 
kindly  feeling  for  me,"  continued  Willie,  yet  unable  to  penetrate 
Hilma's  sadness  or  to  understand  her  rather  reluctant  attitude  in 
assuring  him  of  the  forgiveness  he  had  repeatedly  pleaded  for. 

Yej.  "Oh,  Willie,  if  you  really  love  me  still,  then  I  can  love  you 
a  thousand  times  more  than  ever  before." 

Yek.  "Oh,  Hilma,  darling,  sweetheart,  is  that  possible?"  Willie 
now  said  with  deep  emotion  and  hopefulness. 

Yel.  "I  want  to  tell  you  something.  I  have  been  afraid  to 
propose  to  you  because  I  have  no  home  of  my  own,  neither  am  I 
able  to  secure  one  for  some  time  yet.  I  have,  therefore,  hesitated. 
For  I  felt  that  if  I  should  have  asked  you  to  marry  me,  you  would 
justly  have  confronted  me  with  the  question: 

Yem.  "  i Where  are  you  going  to  keep  me  and  how  will  you  support 
me?;  and  these  questions  I  am  not  yet  prepared  to  answer." 

Yen.  "Why  can't  we  do  as  the  Robin  Redbreast  does?"  Hilma 
asked,  having  now  regained  her  composure  and  poise. 

Yep.  "Well,  how  does  the  Robin  Redbreast  do?"  Willie  asked 
with  a  peculiar  tenderness. 

Yeq.  "Why? — the  male  and  female  build  their  nest  together, 
after  mating,"  was  Hilma's  calm  answer. 

Yer.  "Do  you  mean  that  we  could  marry  and  then  work  together 
for  a  home?"  Willie  put  the  question  with  a  certain  strain  of  doubt 
in  his  mind,  which  was  easily  discernible  in  both  look  and  voice. 

Yes.  "That  is  just  what  I  mean  and  intend  to  do  if  you  still 
consider  me  your  sweetheart,"  asserted  Hilma,  reassuringly. 

Yet.  "But  how  could  I  ever  think  of  you  working  out  to  earn 
money  for  the  purchase  of  a  home?  Hilma,  dear,  it  looks  too  shock- 
ing to  contemplate;  and  what  enjoyment  would  there  really  be  in 
wedlock  if  we  should  have  to  work  separately  that  way?" 

Yev.     "There  are  many  ways  for  a  woman  to  earn  money  and  to 


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help  her  husband,  if  she  has  a  mind  to,"  said  Hilma  with  a  gentle 
smile  and  a  conviction  which  indicated  matured  plans  and  a  knowl- 
edge of  ways  and  means. 

Yew.  "I  surrender  wholly,  entirely,  unreservedly.  With  you  I 
shall  have  home  and  all;"  and  saying  this  he  stretched  out  his  arms 
for  an  embrace.  But  Hilma  stepped  backward,  saying  gently: 

Yex.  "Not  just  yet,  Willie.  We  have  only  talked  about  the  mat- 
ter, but  we  are  not  yet  really  engaged.  Let  us  now  think  the  matter 
over  for  a  week,  and  in  the  meantime  study  out  plans.  I  want  to 
inform  my  parents,  too,  that  I  am  about  to  be  engaged  to  you.  I 
don't  anticipate  any  objection  on  their  part,  for  they  know  that  we 
have  kept  company  for  some  time,  and  they  have  never  objected." 

Yey.     "All  right,  Hilma,  dear;  but  where  will  we  meet?" 

Eba.  "Right  here  next  Saturday  evening,  if  convenient  for  you," 
proposed  Hilma;  and  it  was  so  agreed. 

Eca.    Two  happy  hearts  now  parted.     What  a  pleasant  change! 

Eda.  The  threatening  thunderstorm  had  subsided  and  passed,  the 
star  of  hope  shone  brightly  in  the  east,  boding  the  dawn  of  a  happy 
day  and  a  joyous,  peaceful  future. 

Our  limited  space  will  not  permit  to  relate  the  doings  of  the  inter- 
vening days.  Both  planned  and  worked  with  the  view  of  finishing 
early  Saturday  evening.  Both  had  a  fixed  purpose  in  view,  some- 
thing intensely  interesting;  a  special  interest  in  one  another,  and 
moreover,  a  common,  mutual  interest,  the  interest  of  a  home;  the 
interest  of — their  home. 

THE  ENGAGEMENT 

Efa.  After  pleasant  greetings,  so  different  from  the  Monday 
evening  greeting,  the  main  question  was  put  by  Willie,  who  said: 

Ega.  "It  all  depends  upon  your  plans  now,  Hilma,  for  I  haven't 
any.  My  whole  treasury  is  only  five  hundred  dollars;  and  there 
won't  be  much  left  after  having  bought  furniture  and  other  little 
things  necessary  for  a  home." 

Eha.  "You  have  five  hundred  and  I  have  two  hundred;  that 
makes  seven  hundred  dollars,  see,  dear." 

Eja.  "I  can  get  all  we  need  of  furniture  for  $150,  and  our  wedding 
need  not  cost  more  than  twenty-five,  leaving  us  $525  to  start  business 
with.  That  will  buy  a  team,  a  wagon,  a  couple  of  cows  and  five 
dozen  chickens;  and 

Eka.  "I  have  learned  how  to  raise  chickens,  to  construct  nests 
for  the  hens  and  to  take  care  of  eggs;  and  I  know  that  I  can  raise 
chickens  and  sell  eggs  enough  to  maintain  our  family,  at  least. 
That  will  leave  all  we  can  make  on  the  farm  a  net  profit. 

Ela.  "I  hain't  afraid  of  work.  .  .  .1  hate  idleness.  .  .  .1  can  help 
you  in  many  ways, 

Ema.  "Milk  cows,  sometimes,  and  do  lots  of  things  you  would 
never  think  of " 

Ena.  "You  are  a  surprise  and  a  wonder,  dear  Hilma,"  said  Willie 
with  deep  emotion;  "I  never  could  think  of  so  much  common  sense 
in  a  young  girl  like  you.  I  see  older  wives  and  some  farmers'  daugh- 


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ters  do  these  things,  but  never  could  I  expect  anything  like  that  of 
you." 

Epa.  "When  would  you  propose  to  have  our  wedding?"  Willie 
finally  asked,  hardly  knowing  what  he  said  for  ecstasy. 

Eqa.  "Just  as  soon  as  we  can  find  a  couple  of  rooms  to  move 
into  to  start  housekeeping,"  answered  Hilma  cheerfully.  "Let  us 
inquire  to  see  if  we  can  find  a  small  farm  to  rent;  or  if  we  can't  find 
more  than  a  good  large  yard  for  my  chickens,  I  can  start  business." 

Era.  "Oh,  Hilma!  you  are  wonderful — you  are  a  surprise — you, 
I'd— 

Esa.  "It's  nothing  more  than  I  see  other  women  do,  Willie.  And 
I  can  do  what  other  women  are  doing,  I  assure  you — if  you  will 
trust  me,  Willie— will  you?" 

Eta.  "Trust,"  repeated  Willie;  "this  is  certainly  a  trust  on  your 
part,  rather  than  on  my  part." 

Eva.  "All  right,  then,  Willie but  how  about  our  engage- 
ment', we  are  only  talking  about  things aren't  we?" 

Ewa.  "That's  so,  Hilma,  dear dearest  and  loveliest,  the 

pearl  among  all  the  maidens  I  have  ever  seen,  will  you  marry  me .... 
will  you  become  my  wife.  .  .  .on  your  own  terms  and  conditions?" 

Exa.  "Dearest  Willie,  the  gem  among  young  men,  clean,  hand- 
some, free  from  the  tobacco  stench  and  from  the  pollution  of  the 
liquor  poison,  I  have  watched  you  closely  for  over  a  year,  and  I  find 
in  you  an  ideal  young  gentleman  for  a  husband;  /  therefore  promise 
to  marry  you.  .  .  .to  become  your  wife', 

Eya.  "And  my  lips  have  never  been  touched  by  any  male  person, 
except  father's  and  brother's,  since  my  infancy;  but  now  I  will  seal 
my  vow  to  you  by  what  I  refused  Monday  evening,  for  a  purpose, 
with  the  maiden  kiss." 

Beba.     And  the  warm,  soft  lips  of  the  two  lovers  met 

Beca.     And  the  curtain  fell. 


Beda.     THE  TWENTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 

Befa.  Twenty  years  of  happy  married  life  had  passed.  The 
children,  nine  in  number,  five  boys  and  four  girls,  all  pulling  and 
working  together,  like  bees  in  an  apiary,  Willie  and  Hilma  now 
planned  to  invite  relatives  and  friends  for  a  twentieth  anniversary 
celebration.  They  now  owned  a  neat  comfortable  home  and  one  of 
the  best  farms  in  the  New  England  States,  and  were  respected  and 
honored  in  the  community. 

Bega.  Many  were  the  congratulations  and  well-wishes  by  the 
guests,  and 

Beha.  Presents,  souvenirs  and  memorials  were  presented  by 
friends 

Beja.      As  emblems  and  tokens  of  genuine  esteem  and  friendship. 

Beka.     The  hosts,  sitting  side  by  side,  arose,  bowed,  courtesied, 

Bela.      With  emotion  and  dignity,  to  the  right  and  to  the  left, 

Bema.  In  cordial  appreciation  and  gratitude  to  their  kins  and 
friends 


114  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

Bena.  For  the  friendship,  honor  and  esteem  exhibited  in  oratory 
and  presents, 

Bepa.  Worth  more  than  mountains  of  gold  and  silver,  because 
giving  more  real,  genuine  pleasure  and  enjoyment,  and 

Beqa.  More  precious  than  the  most  esteemed  and  costly  jewels, 
because  its  luster  radiates  more  widely,  over  hills  and  vales,  to  the 
end  of  the  world,  and  because  it  is  more  lasting. 

Bera.  In  his  closing  remarks,  the  host  amused  their  guests  by 
relating  the  Robin  Redbreast  story, 

Besa.  Picturing  eloquently  the  Sunday  evening  departure  and 
the  night's  retribution  and  punishment  for  the 

Beta.  Piercing  of  an  innocent  maiden's  heart  with  a  two-edged 
sword, 

Beva.  And  the  Monday  evening's  reconciliation  meeting,  when 
for  the  first  time  he  learned  what  a  precious,  priceless  jewel  the  inno- 
cent, artless  and  lovingly  lovely  maiden  is; 

Bewa.    The  Saturday  evening  engagement  meeting, 

Bexa.     And  two  months  later,  their  wedding  feast, 

Beya.     And  fifteen  months  thereafter  the  visit  of  the  stork, 

Ceba.  Placing  a  ten-pound  boy  in  a  most  happy  and  proud 
father's  arms,  while  the  happiest  wife  and  mother  on  earth  watched  a 
performance,  both  amusing  and  singular. 

Ceca.  But  the  vigorous  protest  of  the  newcomer  sovereign 
aristocrat  effected  speedy  return  of  him  to  the  delicious  table  spread 
for  his  entertainment; 

Ceda.  And  keeping  the  poodle  dog  nuisance  forever  away  from 
our  premises  so  far  that  his  name  and  kind  are  hardly  known,  assist- 
ance rendered  by  coming  brothers  and  sisters,  in  regular  order  and  at 
regular  intervals,  continually  strengthening  the  line  of  defense. 

Cefa.  Thus  he  went  on,  sometimes  interrupted  by  mirth  and 
applause,  waxing  warmer  and  more  eloquent,  until,  reaching  the 
climax,  certifying  in  words  burning  with  earnestness  and  conviction: 

Cega.  "For  twenty  years  I  have  tried  and  experienced  married 
life,  and  I  can ....  I  want  to  testify  to  its  many  blessings  and  unspeak- 
able enjoyment  and  innumerable  advantages,  and  that  in  getting 
into  the  full  married  bliss, 

Ceha.     "The  Robin  Redbreast  method  works  admirably,  especially 

Ceja.     "For  timid,  reluctant,  backward,  awkward  swains; 

Ceka.  "For  as  it  has  with  us,  so  it  will  with  others.  But,  be  it 
said,  first  and  last,  in  poetry  and  prose,  in  recitation  and  in  song, 
near  and  far,  to  present  and  coming  generations,  that 

Cela.     "Hilma  and  her  chicken  business  did  it!"     (Applause). 
And  the  curtain  fell. 


Code  Department  115 

REVERSAL 
Cema.     LEAP- YEAR  PRIVILEGES 

Cena.  Dear  Phillip:  I  have  a  feeling,  a  something  within  me, 
which  leads  me  to  think  that  you  have  some  attraction  toward  me; 
and  I  want  to  be  frank  and  say  that  I  am  much  concerned  about 
you.  You  seem  to  me  an  ideal  young  man  for  a  good,  loving  and 
lovely  husband,  just  such  a  one  as  it  would  be  my  greatest  pleasure 
to  assist  in  the  establishment  of  a  comfortable,  happy  home. 

Cepa.  I  realize  that  young  men  often  hesitate  to  propose  to  a 
young  lady,  for  the  reason  that  many  wives  are  extravagant  and 
exacting. 

Ceqa.  Many  young  ladies  are  also  extravagant  in  dress,  dis- 
couraging sensible  young  men  from  entering  into  married  relation 
for  fear  of  the  keeping  up  of  such  vanity. 

Cera.     I  want  to  say  to  you  that  I  disapprove  of  this. 

Cesa.  Much  rather  would  I  fall  in  line  with  the  Robin  Redbreast 
story  and  help  to  build  the  nest,  living  within  our  means  and  saving 
for  a  rainy  day. 

Ceta.  I  agree  with  Hilma  that  there  are  many  things  in  which 
a  wife  can  assist  her  husband,  if  she  has  a  mind  to;  I  have  a  small 
fund  saved  up  to  help  begin  with. 

Ceva.  If  your  inclination  is  in  the  direction  indicated  I  shall  be 
much  pleased  to  correspond  further  with  you;  if  not,  please  inform 
me  frankly  at  your  earliest  convenience. 

Sincerely,  AMY. 


Cewa.  Dearest  Amy:  I  hasten  to  answer  your  communication 
of  the ,  which  came  as  a  pleasant  surprise  to  me. 

Cexa.  You  are  right  in  your  supposition  with  respect  to  my 
inclination  toward  you,  and  I  am  now  filled  with  hope  and  pleasant 
anticipation. 

Ceya.  This  must  certainly  be  the  guiding  hand  of  God,  for  I  did 
not  dare  to  give  vent  to  my  feelings  until  getting  more  intimately 
acquainted,  for  fear  that  you  would  turn  me  off. 

Deba.  May  I  have  the  pleasure  of  meeting  you  personally  at 
some  place  of  your  own  choosing,  when  we  may  talk  the  matter  over 
more  particularly? 

Deca.  Dear  Miss  Amy,  let  me  assure  you  that  the  way  you  have 
presented  this  delicate  subject  has  increased  my  respect  for  you 
and  my  admiration  of  you  many  fold.  And  you  have  relieved  me  of 
many  worries,  fears  and  hesitation. 

Deda.  Your  sweet  disposition  has  also  been  revealed  in  a  most 
lovely  manner,  making  you  dearer  and  lovelier  in  my  estimation 
than  ever  before. 

Defa.  May  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  lead  us  to  our  destiny, 
where  he  may  bestow  upon  us  his  richest  blessings! 

Dega.     Yours  in  anticipation, 

PHILLIP. 


116  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

Deha.     ARTLESS  AND  TRUE 

Deja.  Mr.  (Fred  Jones):  This  is  a  leap-year  privilege,  giving 
women  the  opportunity  and  ways  and  means  to  propose  marriage. 

Deka.  I  want  to  inform  you  that  I  love  you  most  dearly  and 
therefore  ask  you  to  marry  me,  or,  in  other  words,  I  want  to  make 
you  my  husband. 

Dela.  I  think  it  would  be  so  much  nicer  to  have  a  home  of  our 
own,  and  I  am  sure  you  would  be  pleased  with  me  as  your  wife. 
Lovingly,  LULU.  (See  page  121). 

BUSINESS  MAN  LED  INTO  CAPTIVITY 

Dema.  Dear  (Charles  Fost) :  We  have  known  one  another  for  a 
long  time  and  associated  as  friends.  You  have  always  seemed  to 
appreciate  my  company  and  I  have  appreciated  and  enjoyed  your 
company. 

Dena.  I  have  tried  by  close  watching  to  find  out  if  you  leaned 
toward  another  girl,  or  if  any  other  girl  seemed  especially  attracted 
toward  you. 

Depa.  I  may  be  mistaken,  but  I  find  nothing  to  indicate  any 
real  attachment  or  attraction  either  way. 

Deqa.  I  therefore  suggest  to  you  the  thought  of  closer  relation- 
ship. Your  mind  seems  so  absorbed  and  occupied  with  your  busi- 
ness, that  you  have  no  time  to  think  seriously  about  the  future. 

Dera.  I  also  want  to  remind  you  of  the  fact  that  the  energy  and 
vigor  of  youth  will  soon  pass  away,  and  we  may  find  ourselves 
standing  alone  in  this  cold  world  without  kins  of  our  own  to  look  up 
to;  and  then  we  may  look  back  and  lament  our  mistake. 

Desa.  These  thoughts  and  sentiments  have  occupied  my  mind 
for  a  long  time,  and,  strange  as  it  may  seem  to  you,  you  have  always 
been  my  ideal.  But  it  has  been  considered  unbecoming  and  undigni- 
fied for  a  woman  to  make  known  her  choice  and  sentiment  in  advance, 
neither  have  I  really  known  how  to  express  myself,  until  now  the 
Scientific  Dial  System  has  opened  a  way. 

Deta.  Depending  upon  your  good  sense,  nobility  and  chivalry, 
I  venture  to  address  you  in  this  way. 

Sincerely,    (JULIANA)  . 

Deva.     THE  CAPTIVE 

Dewa.  Dearest  (Juliana):  Your  remarkable  and  most  extraor- 
dinary communication  of  the is  at  hand  and  read  and 

pondered  over  several  times.  And  it  has  had  the  effect  on  me  that 
I  haven't  thought  so  much  about  marriage  for  the  last  ten  years  as 
I  have  now  these  last  twelve  hours. 

Dexa.  Why,  you  little  mischief  you,  you  spoiled  my  sleep  last 
night,  causing  me  to  think  about  you  and  the  wedding  and  the 
honeymoon  all  the  time.  Say,  is  that  fair! 

Deya.  Well,  now,  you  have  trapped  your  bird  all  right;  but  if 
it  is  a  Robin  Redbreast  remains  to  be  seen. 


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Feba.  Write  me  at  once  and  let  me  know  if  you  are  ready  for  the 
wedding  and  a  two  weeks'  honeymoon  in  thirty  days. 

Sincerely  your  captive,  (CHARLES  FOST). 

Feca.  Dearest  (Charles) :  Everything  seems  to  be  business  with 
you,  even  your  love  affairs.  Well,  I  thank  you  for  ready  and  speedy 
response,  though  I  am  accused  of  having  caused  you  a  night's  loss  of 
sleep,  which,  however,  I  hope  to  make  good  in  making  it  up  for  you 
during  the  proposed  honeymoon. 

Feda.     I  am  glad,  however,  that  I  got  my  bird  safely  caged. 

Fefa.     It  is  a  Robin  Redbreast  all  right; 

Fega.  This  I  knew  to  my  satisfaction  before  I  set  the  trap  for 
him. 

Feha.  A  captive!  Yes,  like  Gustavus  Adolphus  II,  king  of 
Sweden,  the  Lion  of  the  North,  when  on  his  victorious  campaign  in 
Germany  and  Austria.  The  queen,  hearing  of  the  defeat  of  Tilly 
and  the  victorious  conquest  by  the  Swedish  arms,  started  to  salute 
the  victorious  warriors.  The  king,  learning  of  her  arrival,  started 
to  meet  her.  The  queen,  seeing  the  king  coming  at  a  distance, 
ordered  her  coachman  to  stop  and  her  escorts  to  open  the  door  of 
the  chariotee;  she  alighted,  tore  loose  from  her  escorts  and  suit  and 
tripped  hastily  in  the  direction  of  the  approaching  royal  cortege. 
The  king  dismounted  and  in  a  moment  he  was  captured,  and  sur- 
rendered to  the  embrace  of  his  royal  visitor.  Now,  securely  holding 
him  in  her  firm  embrace,  she  announced  to  the  cortege  and  escorts, 
jestingly,  "The  Lion  of  the  North,  Gustavus  Adolphus,  king  of 
Sweden,  who  scattered  Tilly's  forces,  the  Conqueror  and  Liberator, 
has  surrendered  and  is  now  a  captive." 

Feja.  Remarkable,  isn't  it !  What  united  armies  of  great  nations 
could  not  do,  a  loving  woman  did. 

Feka.  Is  this  the  kind  of  captivity  you  refer  to?  Well,  dear,  I 
assure  you  you  shall  not  fare  ill  in  it;  I  rather  surmise  that  you  will 
find  so  much  pleasure  in  your  bondage  that  you  will  prefer  strength- 
ening to  relaxing;  "strings"  that  tie  more  taut,  rather  than 
slackened;  or,  to  use  your  own  figure,  the  bars  of  the  cage  more  se- 
curely fastened,  rather  than  thrown  open,  purposing  the  freedom  of 
the  bird  to  occupy  its  old  roost  in  the  woods  as  of  old. 

Fela.  Say,  is  this  fair?  I  simply  proposed  a  proposal,  and  here 
you  propose  a  wedding  and  a  two  weeks'  honeymoon  in  thirty  days, 
without  even  as  much  as  stating  who  is  to  be  the  bride;  and  you  must 
have  an  answer  at  once. 

Fema.  Suppose  you'd  ordered  goods  from  a  wholesale  house  in 
such  a  fashion,  what  would  you  get? 

Fena.  Well,  darling,  you  shall  have  it  your  own  way only 

this:  a  week  or  ten  days  later  would  suit  conditions  a  little  better,  if 
agreeable  to  you. 

Fepa.  This  is  suggested  by  feminine  peculiarities,  purporting  a 
week  or  ten  days  after  crossing  the  line  and  affording  three  weeks' 
uninterrupted  allowance,  making  more  enjoyable  the  honeymoon. 
However,  I  can  get  ready  in  thirty  days, 

Feqa.     If  for  some  special  reason  you  prefer  that  time. 


118  The  Scientific  Dial  Primer 

Fera.  Having  taken  the  initiative,  and  now  having  my  bird 
securely  caged,  I  have  planned  a  few  adornments  for  him,  a  few 
trinkets,  sent  by  express,  which  please  receive  as  a  token  of  genuine 
submissiveness  and  esteem  of  your  condescending  affability. 

Sincerely  and  lovingly  (JULIANA) 

[LFesa.     FIXING  THE  DATE  FOR  WEDDING 

Feta.  Dearest  (Juliana) :  Your  most  welcome  communication  of 
the and  also  the  trinkets  sent  by  express,  at  hand. 

Feva.  Considering  the  beauty  and  value  of  the  things  which  you 
call  "trinkets," 

Fewa.  I  am  curious  to  know  what  a  present  from  you  would  look 
like. 

Fexa.  Why,  dearest  and  loveliest  among  women,  if  of  any  value 
in  excess  of  your  "trinkets,"  it  can  be  nothing  less  than  the  present- 
ment of  yourself,  your  lovely  personality,  wholly,  unreservedly  as  a 
present 

Feya.     To  be  caged  securely  with  the  caged  bird  in  a  cage 

Geba.  Like  the  one  your  heroic  Gustavus  Adolphus  was  caged  in, 
when  his  queen  had  him  caged;  and  had  firmly  secured,  bolted, 
riveted,  clinched  and  closed  all  bars  and  crevices  and  recesses  of  the 

cage,    she    jubilantly    and   exhilaratingly   exclaimed you 

know! 

Geca.     Well,  dear,  since  you  have  proclaimed  me  a  king,  I  will 

Geda.  Affably  condescend  to  grant  your  most  humble  petition, 
which  is  to  allow  you  to  postpone  the  wedding  just  one  week,  deciding 
upon  the  date  of  Paemilana  for  our  wedding;  and  I  hereby  appoint 
Miss  Juliana  Cordelia  to  the  elevated  position  of  bride,  and  I  hereby 
further  authorize,  empower  and  commission  her  to  appoint,  arrange 
and  command  her  own  cortege. 

Gefa.  Enclosed  find  check  for  two  hundred  dollars  as  aid  in 
equipment,  and 

Gega.  Some  specials  with  private  orders  and  regulations  by  ex- 
press. 

Amoroso,  Nayelana,  (CHARLES). 

UNASSUMING  MODESTY 

Geha.  Dearest  Charles:  Your  wonderful  letter  with  inclosure 
Nayelana  at  hand.  So  is  also  the  express.  Many,  many  thanks! 

Geja.     Now  a  word  respecting  my  wedding  gown. 

Geka.  A  modest  costume  is  most  becoming  to  me  and  gives 
greatest  satisfaction. 

Gela.  I  am  aware  of  the  fact  that  our  friends  and  relatives  expect 
our  wedding  expenses  to  total  at  least  five  or  six  hundred  dollars. 

Gema.  But  I  am  also  aware  of  the  fact  that  we  can  celebrate  our 
wedding  feast  with  less  than  half  that  amount,  and  have  all  the 
luxury  in  dress  and  entertainment  that  can  be  reasonably  expected, 
or,  in  other  words,  properly  enjoyed  without  extravagance  or  useless 
waste. 


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Gena.  Suppose,  dear,  that  we  appropriate  the  other  half  for 
charity  and  missionary  purposes,  wouldn't  that  be  a  worthy  dedi- 
cation of  ourselves  to  one  another  and  a  new-born  family  to  the 
church,  to  the  community,  to  the  state  and  to  the  nation  in  which 
we  live? 

Gepa.  That  way  of  entering  upon  married  life  will,  I  am  heartily 
persuaded,  bring  with  it  greater  blessings,  and  sweeter  contentment 
and  satisfaction  than  the  selfishness  and  vanity  so  often  displayed 
on  such  occasions;  and  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  and  His  holy 
angels,  who  are  the  invisible  witnesses,  would  look  down  upon  us 
with  delight  and  complacency.  This  act  on  our  part  would  also  be 
instrumental  in  thanksgiving  and  praise  to  God,  which  is  the  sole 
purpose  of  our  lives,  and  many  fervent  prayers  for  God's  blessing 
upon  us. 

Geqa.  Dearest  darling  Charles,  knowing  your  modesty  and 
chivalry  in  all  things,  you  will  not  object  to  this  arrangement,  I 
know. 

Gera.     May  I  also  suggest  that  we  invite  the  Rev 

to  officiate  and  that  the  wedding  ceremony  take  place  in  the 

Gesa.     Church. 

Amorsville,  Naefelana,  JULIANA. 


MAGNANIMITY 

Geta.  Dearly  beloved:  Your  forethought  and  sweet  disposition 
is  becoming  more  prominent  and  pleasing,  the  more  I  learn  to  know 
you.  A  proposition  like  the  one  in  your  last  letter  is  something 
extraordinary  and  surprisingly  pleasing,  coming  as  it  does  from  a 
young  lady  of  your  environment  and  standing. 

Geva.  I  am  much  pleased,  myself,  over  the  more  serious  aspect 
of  our  correspondence. 

Gewa.  Our  wooing  started  in  such  a  comical,  romantic  way, 
that  it  became  a  matter  of  pleasantry  and  merriment.  I  felt  that  I 
indulged  in  it  a  little  too  far  myself,  but  now  you  have  brought  me 
back  to  my  senses  again. 

Gexa.  Well,  beloved,  I  not  only  agree  with  your  planning  for 
our  wedding,  but  I  very  highly  appreciate  your  forethought  and 
Christian  devotion  to  those  higher  and  nobler  ideals  which  should 
always  be  an  object  in  our  lives  to  reach. 

Geya.  I  now  know  that  I  shall  have  an  ideal  wife.  It  is  a  mys- 
tery to  me  that  I  have  not  discovered  these  sweet  and  lovely  charac- 
teristics in  you  before. 

Heba.  I  have  always  looked  upon  you  as  a  nice  and  sensible  girl, 
but  never  did  it  occur  to  me  that  in  you  were  hidden  such  a  wealth 
of  gold  and  gems  as  I  have  found  these  last  days. 

Heca.  I  am  coming  to  the  city  in  a  week  or  ten  days,  will  then 
see  you  and  make  further  arrangements  for  our  wedding.  I  am 
already  making  arrangements  for  a  few  weeks'  absence  after  our 
wedding  for  a  wedding  trip. 


Home,  Sweet  Home. 


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Heda.  I  will  inform  you  of  the  day  of  my  trip  to  the  city  as  soon 
as  arrangements  have  been  made. 

Moroso,  Naejelana,  CHARLES  FOST. 

Hefa.     STRAIGHT  TO  THE  POINT* 

Hega.  Dear  Lulu:  Your  kind  and  straight  to  the  point  com- 
munication of  Mamelana  at  hand. 

Heha.  If  I  could  find  nothing  else  to  admire  about  you,  this 
mode  of  presenting  a  delicate  subject  is  admirable,  and  in  me  you 
have  awakened  a  certain  interest  in  you,  above  every  other  girl,  by 
doing  it. 

Heja.  I  am  not  ready  at  this  moment  to  say  that  I  am  in  love, 
but  I  am  aware  that  your  personality  and  presence  will  have  a  dif- 
ferent meaning  to  me  from  this  on. 

Heka.  It  is  asserted  by  diligent  investigators  and  observers  that 
woman  instinct  and  feminine  intuition  nearly  always  lead  her  aright, 
in  the  choice  of  her  life-mate 

Hela.  If  she  is  free  to  choose  from  the  inner  instinct  and  intuition 
of  her  heart. 

Hema.  That  is  one  reason  why  marriages  in  the  middle  classes 
are  happier  and  more  successful,  because  the  young  folks  have 
greater  freedom  in  the  selection  of  their  mates  than  is  the  case  in  the 
higher  classes. 

Hena.  I  can  not  thoughtlessly  and  carelessly  turn  down  the 
tender  of  yourself  to  me,  but  will  suggest  continued  correspondence 
and  personal  association  for  a  while. 

Hepa.  A  question:  Which  weighs  the  most  in  your  heart,  my 
individuality  and  personality  or  the  establishment  of  a  nice  hornet 

Heqa.  Suppose  that  I  were  only  a  poor  day  laborer  with  a  com- 
paratively small  income,  able  only  to  establish  a  plain,  simple  home, 
and  able  only  to  furnish  you  the  necessaries  of  life,  devoid  of  luxuries, 
how  many  degrees  would  be  lowered  your  thermometer  of  love  in 
fervency  and  affection? 

Hera.     Such  things  may  happen;  what  would  happen  then? 

Hesa.  Really,  friend  Lulu,  what  is  it  that  has  turned  your  atten- 
tion toward  me,  there  being  so  many  other  young  gentlemen  for  you 
to  select  from? 

Heta.  These  questions  are  asked  in  all  sincerity  and  earnestness, 
with  a  view  of  finding  the  real,  genuine  truth. 

Sincerely,  FRED  JONES. 

Heva.     DEFINITION  OF  TRUE  LOVE  AND  A  REAL  HOME 

Hewa.  Dearest  Fred:  Your  interesting  communication  of  Mar- 
elana  at  hand,  and  I  have  read  and  re-read  it  many  times  over, 
and  yet  I  am  not  quite  sure  that  I  understand  you. 

Hexa.  I  am  glad  anyway  that  you  didn't  turn  me  down,  but  your 
reasoning  about  woman's  instinct  and  feminine  intuition  I  don't 
understand. 

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Heya.  Why  I  love  you?  Why,  dear,  I  don't  know,  I  have  never 
reasoned  about  that  at  all. 

Jeba.  I  like  you;  I  feel  an  attraction  toward  you;  I  want  to  see 
you,  to  look  at  you,  to  associate  with  you  and  to  live  with  you, 
rather  than  with  anybody  else.  I  don't  know  any  other  explanation 
for  this  state  of  mind  and  heart  or  tendency  and  impulse  than  love. 
It  is  an  affection  much  like  what  I  feel  toward  my  mother,  though, 
now  intensified  by  some  inward  sensitiveness  and  emotion  of  longing 
for  you;  and  when  I  think  of  you,  which  I  do  in  the  day  and  the 
waking  hours  of  night;  and  when  I  hear  your  name,  or  see  you,  or 
hear  your  voice,  something,  I  can  not  explain,  turns  and  moves  in 
my  heart,  causing  pain  or  joy:  pain  in  anticipation  of  being  turned 
down  by  you;  joy^when  you  appear  ever  so  little  concerned  about 
me,  for  that  inspires  hope. 

Jeca.  Which  weighs  the  most,  your  personality  or  the  establish- 
ment of  a  "nice  home?" 

Jeda.  Dearest  darling  Freddie,  how  could  I  ever  think  of  any 
kind  of  a  home  at  all  without  you?  The  kind  of  a  home  I  have 
reference  to  is  a  place  where  husband  and  wife  live  together,  do  their 
housekeeping,  take  their  meals  and  sleep  together;  a  place  where  I 
could  lock  everybody  else  out  and  lock  you  in,  and  fondle  and 
caress  you  to  my  heart's  content — that  would  be  my  ideal  home; 
whether  large  or  small,  luxurious  or  plain,  cuts  no  figure. 

Jefa.  The  saying  is,  "What  is  home  without  a  mother?" 
With  me  it  is,  "What  is  a  home  without  a  loving,  fondling  husband?" 

Jega.  And  this  question  has  been  uppermost  in  my  mind  ever 
since  I  was  sixteen  years  old. 

Jeha.  Dearest  Freddie,  I  have  now  laid  open  my  heart  the  best 
I  know  how.  It  is  now  for  you  to  determine  whether  you  consider 
my  motives  and  impulses  genuine  love  or  just  an  attempt  to  secure 
a  "nice  home." 

Jeja.  On  my  part  I  deem  it  of  no  less  importance  to  find  in  you 
the  ready  response  and  reciprocation,  and  a  mutual  attraction, 
affection  and  love  necessary  for  happiness  in  marriage  relationship 
and  association. 

Jeka.  There  may  be  more  in  your  letter  that  I  don't  understand, 
but  this  much  ought  to  make  clear  to  you  my  disposition  and  con- 
dition of  heart  toward  you. 

Sincerely,  LULU. 

Jela.     DELICATELY  BEAUTIFUL 

Jema.  Dearest  Lulu:  Your  most  remarkable  communication  of 
Matelana  at  hand  and  contents  carefully  and  cheerfully  perused. 

Jena.  I  never  expected  such  a  fine  delineation  of  your  character 
nor  such  an  exquisite  description  or  definition  of  love  and  true  de- 
votion, as  I  find  it  in  this  letter  of  yours. 

Jepa.     I  congratulate  you. 

Jeqa.  Your  whole  letter,  from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  is  deli- 
cately beautiful. 

Jera.     Dear  Lulu,  you  have  opened  up  a  new  world  to  me.     New 


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thoughts,  new  views,  new  impulses,  new  object  of  life.  In  short: 
you  have  impressed  yourself  upon  my  mind  in  a  most  agreeable  and 
fascinating  manner. 

Jesa.  In  reading  your  letter  to  find  out  if  you  were  honestly, 
earnestly  and  sincerely  in  love,  something  happened  to  me,  I  must 
confess,  very  similar  to  the  feeling,  emotion,  inclination,  admiration 
and  longing  which  you  describe  so  admirably;  and  if  yours  are  the 
genuine  symptoms  of  love,  and  I  have  an  attack  of  the  same  kind  of 
microbes,  then  I  must  be  in  love,  too. 

Jeta.  I  am  now  convinced  that  you,  dear  ^Lulu,  are  a  noble, 
virtuous  woman,  just  such  a  one  as  has  been  my  ideal  for  a  wife, 
though  I  did  not  know  how  or  where  to  find  her. 

Jeva.  But  your  ingenious  feminine  advancement  has  met  and 
obviated  the  anticipated  difficulty  in  discovering  these  virtues  in 
an  ideal  woman  for  a  good,  lovingly  lovely,  charming  wife. 

Jewa.     I  am  satisfied. 

Jexa.  My  only  desire  now  is  to  be  able  to  meet  your  expectation 
of  an  ideal  husband  as  fully  as  I  am  sure  you  will  more  than  meet 
my  expectation  of  an  ideal  wife. 

Jeya.  My  concern  has  therefore  now  been  turned  upon  myself, 
since  you  have  been  measured  and  weighed  and  have  proven  yourself 
to  be  a  genuine  pearl  of  greatest  magnitude,  set  in  the  purest  gold. 

Keba.  My  only  desire  now  is  permission  to  see  you  personally, 
and  will  call,  if  permitted, 

Keca.     Next  (Saturday) at  such  time  in  the  afternoon 

as  you  may  designate,  and 

Keda.  I  would  then  offer  you  a  ride  in  the  park,  which  will  afford 
us  an  opportunity  for  private  conversation  regarding  future  arrange- 
ments. 

Sincerely  yours,  in  anticipation, 

FRED  JONES. 

Kef  a.     CORDIAL  ACCEPTANCE 

AND 
Kega.     A  NEW  PROPOSAL 

Keha.  Dearest  Freddie:  Your  most  welcome  and  appreciative 
communication  of  Mavelana  received  and  read  with  much  feeling 
and  rejoicing,  though  with  some  apprehension,  because  you  seem  to 
drop  into  my  embrace  almost  too  suddenly,  taking  for  good  my 
presentation  without  further  investigation  or  proof. 

Keja.  You  may  not  know  that  I  have  followed  you  closely  for 
nearly  two  years. 

Keka.  The  time  has  come  when  sensible  girls  should  select  for 
their  husbands  and  fathers  of  their  children  clean,  temperate,  in- 
dustrious and  brave  men. 

Kela.  The  last  words  of  my  saintly  mother,  when  she  departed 
for  that  better  land,  three  years  ago,  were  these: 

Kema.  "Lulu,  choose  for  your  husband  only  one  who  is  pious, 
industrious  and  brave," 

Kena.     I  promised  her,  and  ever  since  have  these  words oh,  I 


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can  see  her  angelic  face -and  hear  her  faint  though  sweet  voice  at 

this  moment  as  plainly  as  then been  ringing  in  my  ears  and 

affecting  my  heart  and  conduct. 

Kepa.  Well,  a  two  years  watching,  and  finding  the  ideals  per- 
manent, but  the  general  faults  of  youth — tobacco  habit,  drinking, 
card-playing,  etc. — wanting,  I  concluded  that  you  were  just  about 
such  a  youth  as  my  mother  would  have  chosen  for  me;  at  any  rate, 
she  would  cheerfully  consent,  were  she  yet  living. 

Keqa.  I  write  this  to  show  you  that  my  first  communication  to 
you  was  not  prompted,  as  you  seemed  to  think,  by  frivolous  motives 
or  impulses,  but  after  mature  consideration. 

Kera.  I  approve  of  a  meeting  with  you  and  next  Saturday, 
Mayelana,  Daemzoz  will  be  convenient  to  me.  Dear  Freddie,  I  have 

ANOTHER  PROPOSAL 

Kesa.  We  are  writing  and  saying  so  many  nice  things  to  one 
another  now.  Just  think  if  the  same  consideration,  the  same  kindly 
feeling,  the  same  assurances  and  postulations  of  the  appreciation 
and  high  regard  for  one  another  could  follow  us  uninterruptedly 
through  our  married  life,  what  a  vestibule  to  Heaven  our  family 

and  home  would  be !  Dear,  darling  Freddie,  I  think I  know  it 

to  be  possible.  And 

Keta.  I  propose  for  the  purpose  of  promoting  this,  that  we 
carefully  record  all  that  we  now  write  to  and  about  one  another, 
before  our  marriage;  and  I  shall  place  the  records  of  my  sayings  and 
expressions  to  and  about  you  now  under  your  photograph  and  have 
it  all  framed  and  thus  preserved  and  hung  on  the  wall  in  the  bed- 
chamber for  a  reminder. 

Keva.  Of  course,  I  did  not  intend  to,  dictate  to  you  what  to  do 
with  me  and  yours.  I  rather  think  that  you  are  of  such  sweet  dis- 
position and  noble  character  that  any  such  reminder  will  not  be  neces- 
sary, unless  you  should  feel  inclined  to  do  it  for  the  sake  of  sym- 
metry and  harmony  in  decoration  and  appearance. 

Kewa.  Well ....  well,  darling,  I  just  love  to  think  about  the 
most  proper  arrangement  and  fitting  up  and  decoration  of  a  simple 
and  yet  cozy  and  attractive  home,  where  my  darling  husband  shall 
love  to  stay  rather  than  any  other  place  on  earth,  and  when  away 
from  it  he  shall  pant  in  longing  to  return  to  it. 

Keya.  Considering  myself  from  this  on,  your  sweetheart,  I  am 

Lovingly  yours  forever,  LULU. 


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Leba.     THE  WIDOW 
Leca.     A  DELICATE  POSITION 

Leda.  Dear  Mr.  Knox:  The  time  has  come  when  women  may 
vent  their  feelings  and  sentiment  without  being  branded  as  flirts 
and  lunatics. 

Lefa.  I  now  feel  constrained  to  avail  myself  of  the  opportunity 
afforded,  and  in  so  doing,  I  use  the  Scientific  Dial  Code,  which  has 
come  into  general  use. 

Lega.  You  are  aware  that  my  position  is  a  very  delicate  one,  as  I 
have  children; 

Leha.  And  I  would  not  dare  thus  to  address  you  if  it  were  not 
for  the  fact  that  you  have  shown  so  much  tender  sympathy  with  me 
and  my  children  in  various  ways  that  our  hearts  have  become 
attached  to  you. 

Leja.  I  therefore  feel  that  you  will  become  a  lovely  husband  and 
a  kind  father  to  my  children. 

Leka.     You  may  hesitate  for  perhaps  three  reasons: 

Lela.  (1)  In  taking  upon  yourself  the  responsibility  and  diffi- 
culty with  another  man's  children; 

Lema.  (2)  In  marrying  a  woman  who  is  the  mother  of  several 
children  already;  and,  perhaps 

Lena.  (3)  A  third  reason,  likely  to  be  treated  with  a  second-hand 
devotion  and  love. 

Lepa.  WTell,  now,  in  the  first  place,  I  desire  to  have  these  my 
children  treated,  and  for  you  to  have  the  same  authority  over  them, 
as  if  they  were  your  own.  Allow  me  also  to  call  your  attention  to 
the  further  fact  that  you  will  have  assistance  sooner  from  these 
than  you  will  by  waiting  for  your  own  children  to  grow  up,  if  marrying 
a  maiden. 

Leqa.  I  am  able  and  willing  to  bear  several  children  yet,  thus 
affording  you  the  pleasure  of  fondling  your  own  babes,  giving  you 
the  same  satisfaction  and  enjoyment  in  family  relationship  as  if 
you  married  a  maiden. 

Lera.  I  assure  you  that  I  entertain  fully  as  deep  and  whole- 
hearted love  for  you  as  I  did  for  my  first  husband.  You  will  there- 
fore not  be  the  recipient  of  a  second-class  or  second-hand  love,  or 
anything  of  the  kind,  but  the  genuine  first-class  fresh-from-the-heart 
love  and  devotion, 

Lesa.  And  you  will  find,  too,  that  my  knowledge  and  experience 
in  marriage  relationship  will  be  helpful  to  you  in  many  ways,  where 
a  maiden  is  ignorant. 

Leta.  So  you  see,  dear,  that  the  widow  has  some  virtues,  some- 
thing specifically  her  own,  that  speaks  for  her,  though  she  has  to 
present  it  herself;  and,  besides,  she  has  a  special  claim  on  a  man  to 
assist  her  in  raising  her  children. 

Leva.     THE  WIDOW-LONESOMENESS 

Lewa.  Shall  I  speak  of  the  widow-lonesomeness !  The  memory 
of  the  association,  the  assistance,  the  encouragements,  the  fondling 
and  caressing  occasionally  of  a  former  husband  makes  the  life  of  the 


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widow  extremely  dark  and  hopeless.  But  she  must  not  say  anything 
about  it.  She  has  to  shed  her  tears  in  the  closet,  but  look  cheerful 
in  company,  though  her  heart  aches  and  is  ready  to  burst. 

Lexa.  But  now  this  condition  of  things  has  happily  changed; 
and  with  me  thousands  of  widows  in  this  land  and  in  the  world 
thank  God  for  it. 

Leya.  I  don't  know  how  it  is  or  the  cause  of  it,  but  I  have  felt  a 
singular  attraction  toward  you,  dear  Mr.  Knox,  just  the  same  as  I 
felt  toward  my  former  husband  during  our  courtship,  though,  of 
course,  now  with  more  common  sense,  if  I  may  use  that  expression, 
with  regard  to  aptitude  and  fitness,  than  on  the  former  occasion,  as 
I  now  also  have  my  children  to  look  out  for.  Therefore,  as  I  find  a 
lovely  husband  for  myself  I  must  also  find  a  tender  father  for  my 
children;  and  I  am  sure  that  I  have  found  both  in  you,  dear  Mr. 
Knox. 

Meba.  It  does  not  become  me  to  be  impetuous  in  the  pleading  of 
my  own  case,  but  from  my  knowledge  of  circumstances  and  condi- 
tions, the  widow  has  special  advantages  to  offer  for  her  spouse  to 
enjoy,  and  she  has  also  an  established  family  and  a  home,  needing 
only  that  missing  member,  which  God  will  provide,  to  fill  a  vacancy 
and  to  make  it  complete. 

Meca.     May  I  expect  an  answer  at  your  convenience? 

Sincerely,  MRS.  JULIA  SMITH. 
Romona,  Hafelana. 

Meda.     THE  MOST  FORTUNATE  YOUNG  MAN 

Mefa.  Dear  Mrs.  Julia  Smith:  I  hasten  to  answer  your  very 
interesting  letter  of  the  Hafelana.  Though  a  surprise,  it  is  none  the 
less  welcome  and  appreciated. 

Mega.  I  have  also  to  acknowledge  a  singular  attraction  toward 
you  and  a  special  interest  in  your  lovely  children. 

Meha.  But,  being  only  a  simple  laborer,  and  not  yet  able  to  offer 
a  comfortable  home  for  a  wife,  I  have  considered  it  foolish  on  my 
part  to  entertain  any  inclination  in  that  direction;  in  fact,  any  inti- 
mation from  me  might  have  been  considered  an  insult  to  you,  though 
I  have  greatly  admired  your  friendliness  and  affability,  and  there- 
fore enjoyed  your  company  exceedingly. 

Meja.  This,  however,  I  have  ascribed  to  your  kindness  of  heart 
and  lovely  disposition. 

Meka.  But  finding  now  that  your  kindness  and  lovely  disposition 
have  been  imbued  with  genuine  love,  embracing  such  a  simple  object 
as  me,  I  consider  myself  the  happiest  and  most  fortunate  among 
young  men;  and  my  heart  is  thrilled  with  blissful  anticipations. 

Mela.  Talk  about  responsibilities  I  Dearest  Julia,  your  conde- 
scension and  loveliness  tower  so  high,  and  your  tender  affection  and 
kindness,  like  the  radiance  of  the  midday  sun,  embracing  me,  so 
largely  overbalance  any  responsibility  that  may  devolve  upon  me 
by  accepting  your  proposal,  that  there  is  absolutely  no  comparison. 

Mema.  Dearest  Julia,  I  accept  your  proposal,  I  will  marry  you, 
hoping  that  I  may  be  to  you  what  I  know  you  will  be  for  me. 


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Mena.  The  time  for  our  wedding  and  matters  connected  there- 
with, you  determine  upon  to  suit  your  idea;  I  shall  be  ready  at  your 
call. 

Devoutly  and  lovingly,  LON  B.  KNOX. 
Tuscan,  Hajelana. 

Mepa.     FINAL  ARRANGEMENT 

Meqa.  Dearest  Lon:  Your  assuring  letter  of  the  Hajelana  just 
received.  I  am  much  pleased  with  your  noble  answer,  as  I  find  in  it 
the  response  and  consonance  I  expected. 

Mera.  I  was  aware  of  your  inclination  toward  me,  and  I  have 
expected  you  to  mention  something  in  that  direction  for  some  time; 
but  I  thought  that  you  hesitated  because  I  am  the  mother  of  several 
children,  and  that  I,  therefore,  might  treat  you  more  as  a  servant 
than  as  a  husband  and  head  of  a  family. 

Mesa.  With  these  objections  removed,  which  I  thought  it  in- 
cumbent upon  me  to  do,  I  felt  that  you  would  not  hesitate  in  accept- 
ing a  proposal  of  marriage  from  me;  and  I  now  find  that  my  sup- 
position was  correct. 

Meta.     DIVISION  OF  PROPERTY 

Meva.  Now,  one-half  of  our  home  belongs  to  my  present  children 
and  the  other  half  to  me.  But  my  husband  provided  in  his  will 
that  the  estate  should  remain  undivided  in  my  charge  as  adminis- 
tratrix and  guardian,  until  our  youngest  child,  little  Ellen,  shall  be 
eighteen  years  old. 

Mewa.  She  is  only  5 years  now,  and  we,  you  and  I,  are 

both  yet  young;  we  can  therefore  easily  accumulate  enough  and 
plenty  for  the  maintenance  and  education  of  your  children,  also. 

Mexa.  I  mention  this  now,  so  that  we  may  have  a  correct  under- 
standing beforehand  and  from  the  beginning. 

Meya.  I  want  to  say,  too,  dearest,  darling  Lon,  that  I  have  had 
several  suitors  since  my  husband  died;  they  even  began  their  atten- 
tion shortly  after  the  funeral. 

Neba.     WOULD  NOT  RISK  MOTHERHOOD 

Neca.  But  I  would  not  risk  motherhood  in  union  with  any  man, 
who  thoughtlessly  strikes  a  match — for  his  own  gratification  and 
enjoyment,  without  any  real  benefit,  but  on  the  contrary,  detrimental 
to  himself  and  posterity — and  sets  fire  to  a  cigar  and  burns  from 
five  cents  to  twenty-five  cents  at  a  time.  The  cigarette  or  pipe  is 
just  as  obnoxious  as  the  other,  because  it  is  not  only  a  waste,  but  it 
poisons  the  system. 

Neda.  But  in  you  I  have  a  clean  young  man,  who  is  both  pious 
and  industrious;  and  when  you  caught  the  runaway  team  in  town 
the  other  day  and  thus  saved^the  life  of  a  woman,  you  also  proved 
yourself  a  brave  young  man,  a  hero;  and  I  determined  then  and 
there  that  you  were  mine,  if  I  could  get  you; and  I  have  now 


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got  you,  and  am  happy  as  a  lark;  for  I  shall  again  have  a  complete 
home,  forgetting  the  travail  of  my  widowhood. 

Nefa.  And  I  shall  consider  it  a  great  favor  and  divine  blessing 
to  become  the  mother  of  sons  and  daughters,  if  it  pleases  God  to 
make  me  worthy,  with  your  amiable  characteristics  and  lovely 
disposition  predominating. 

Nega.  The  world  is  in  need  of  clean,  pious,  brave,  industrious, 
noble-minded,  self-restraining  men  and  women;  and  it  requires 
parents  with  these  same  characteristics  to  produce  them. 

Neha.  And  happy  motherhood  has  a  double  function  to  perform : 
To  conceive,  fashion  and  bring  into  existence  inhabitants  for  heaven 
and  citizens  for  the  community  and  the  state.  Someone  will  be  the 
mother  of  a  president,  a  governor,  a  senator,  a  congressman,  a  min- 
ister or  missionary,  or  the  happy  and  honored  wife  of  someone  of 
these,  and  I  have  as  good  a  chance  at  it  as  any  other  woman  in  the 
land. 

Neja.  Should  I  neglect,  refuse  or  prevent,  I  would  be  guilty  of 
robbing  both  heaven  and  earth;  for  I  believe  that  God  has  ordained 
for  each  and  every  one  his  lot,  even  to  the  number  and  sex  of  chil- 
dren; and  I  should  not  like  to  meet  God  in  judgment  if  I  were  short 
or  lacking  in  this  or  any  other  respect,  where  negligence,  refusal  or 
prevention  could  be  pointed  to  as  the  cause. 

Neka.  Dearest  Lon,  pardon  me!  but  I  have  seized  this  oppor- 
tunity to  express  myself  in  this  respect,  for  I  can  do  it  better  in 
writing  than  I  could  say  it.  And  I  want  to  say  it  now  in  order  to 
prepare  your  mind  for  the  holy  divine  purpose  of  our  coming  together 
in  holy  wedlock,  for  I  believe  that  in  this  will  be  found  our  real  and 
lasting  happiness. 

Nela.  This  correspondence  has  now  opened  the  way.  I  will  be 
ready  for  our  wedding  in  two  weeks  (cabaj).  Let  us  keep  the  thing 
quiet,  just  inviting  a  dozen  or  so  of  our  nearest  relatives  and  friends. 
We  will  ask  our  pastor  to  marry  us  at  home. 

Nema.  Please  call  at  my  house  Ajja,  Hamelana,  jaemzoz  to  plan 
and  make  arrangements  for  our  marriage  to  be  celebrated  Ajja, 
Haefelana,  Kaemzoz. 

Lovingly,  JULIA. 

Romona,  Hakelana. 


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Lovely  childhood 

LITTLE  THINGS 

When  God  makes  a  lovely  thing, 

The  first  and  completest, 
He  makes  it  little,  don't  you  know? 

For  little  things  are  sweetest. 

Little  birds  and  little  flowers, 

Little  diamonds,  little  pearls; 
But  the  dearest  things  on  earth 

Are  the  little  boys  and  girls. 

LADIES'  HOME  JOURNAL. 


Nena.     A  HOLY  PURPOSE 

Nepa.  In  reading  your  last  letter,  I  have  found  an  entirely  new 
world,  opening  up  to  me.  I  must  confess  that  my  idea  of  marriage 
has  been  crude,  almost  barbarious — a  home,  a  family,  provision  for 
the  future  and  old  age,  that's  all. 

Neqa.  But  now,  you,  Dear  Julia,  have  conceived  of  a  higher  aim, 
a  nobler  purpose — that  of  inhabitants  for  heaven  and  a  higher  type 
of  citizens  for  the  community  and  the  state.  This  gives  a  new  mean- 
ing to  marriage. 

T.Nera.     Strange  that  I  have  never  heard  this  made  any  mention  of 
in  sermons  from  the  pulpit. 


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Nesa.     ARE  OUR  MINISTERS  IGNORANT  OR  NEGLIGENT 

in  this  the  most  important  question,  as  it  now  seems  to  me? 

Neta.  For  in  the  winning  of  souls  for  Christ,  in  revivals  or  otherwise, 
it  is  a  great  grand  thing  for  women  and  wives  to  participate;  but 
other  mothers  have  an  interest  in  these,  however,  for  their  prayers, 
their  tears,  their  admonitions  and  warnings,  their  precepts,  and  their 
examples  enter  in  as  factors  in  the  winning  of  them; 

Neva.  But  above  them  and  ranking  much  higher  stands  the  mother 
who  brings  her  own  child,  son  or  daughter,  to  Christ,  for  she  has  been 
instrumental  in  bringing  a  new  being  into  existence,  which  no  one 


What  will  become  of  him  ? 


else  could  bring,  and  therefore  all  the  credit,  joy  and  reward  will 
come  to  her  undivided. 

Newa.  In  closing,  I  want  to  thank  you  for  this  valuable  informa- 
tion. It  opens  up  a  new  world  to  me  and  it  also  brings  with  it  a  new 
subject  for  my  prayers,  which  I  have  never  thought  of  before. 

Tuscan,  Halelana.  Lovingly,  LON. 


Nexa.     MOTHER'S  OBLIGATION 

Neya.  Dearest  Lon:  I  admire  your  promptness  to  respond  and 
your  readiness  to  receive  and  embrace  those  higher  and  nobler  ideals, 
aims  and  purposes  of  our  existence  on  this  globe,  than  just  the  living 
for  the  eating  and  the  eating  for  the  living. 

Peba.     This  carnal  existence  is  mere  emptiness  and  the  search  for 


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enjoyments  and  pleasures  that  do  not  exist;  for  these  are  found  only 
in  conforming  ourselves  strictly  with  divine  purposes. 

Peca.  All  selfish  searching,  striving,  exerting  for  pleasure  and 
enjoyment  results  in  dismal  disappointment. 

Peda.     MOTHER'S  UNDIVIDED  REWARD 

Pefa.  You  mention  a  mother's  undivided  credit,  joy  and  reward. 
Dear  Lon,  you  have  advanced  marvelously  in  your  perception  of 
higher  ideals  and  nobler  motives,  and  yet,  I  think,  one  step  further 
will  open  wider 

Pega.     THE  GATES  OF  PARADISE, 

Peha.  For  a  desire  to  receive  undivided  credit,  joy  and  reward 
is  tainted  with  selfishness,  and  selfishness  destroys  happiness  and 
enjoyment. 

Peja.  Really,  Lon,  there  can  be  no  such  a  thing  or  condition  as 
undivided  credit,  enjoyment  or  reward.  For  our  ancestors  have  a 
credit,  and  a  reward  is  due  them,  for  what  we  are,  you  and  I,  and  it 
is  by  reason  of  this  that  we  will  be  able  to  advance  a  step  farther, 
which  is  not  only  our  privilege  but  our  duty. 

Peka.  But  suppose  that  our  mothers  had  shirked  motherhood  in 
the  fashion  of  wives  of  today,  then  neither  you  nor  I  would  have 
been  in  existence,  my  prayers  and  praises  would  never  have 
been  heard,  for  I  am  the  eleventh  of  twelve  children;  nor  would  your 
beautiful  and  charming  voice  ever  have  been  heard  in  the  church,  nor 
in  the  choir,  nor  in  heaven,  for  you  are  the  seventh  of  10  children. 

Pela.  Had  wives  been  shirkers  in  the  early  days  of  our  history, 
as  they  are  now,  this  country  could  not  boast  of  a  Washington,  a 
Jefferson,  a  Wendell  Phillips,  a  Charles  Sumner,  an  Abraham  Lincoln, 
and  many  other  shining  lights  in  our  brilliant  history, 

Pema.  For  great  men  generally  come  from  large  families,  either 
directly  or  in  the  first  preceding  generation. 

Pena.  One  or  two  children  to  a  family  rarely  become  great  and 
useful. 

Pepa.     Two  REQUISITES 

Peqa.  In  this  advancement  in  the  development  of  the  human 
race,  I  realize  two  very  important  requisites,  devolving  upon  the 
wife  and  mother,  namely,  opportunity  and  responsibility;  for  she  has 
the  opportunity  to  accomplish  great  things  and  to  become  a  blessing; 
but  with  this  opportunity  is  intermingled  responsibility — responsi- 
bility commensurate  with  her  possibilities;  her  possibilities  com- 
mensurate with  her  feminine  functioning  in  reproduction,  in  her 
aptitude  and  ability  to  conceive  and  to  bring  into  existence  new  be- 
ings. And  of  these  new  beings  she  has  the  shaping,  molding  and 
fashioning  of  mind  and  character  in  her  keeping  from  the  conception 
to  the  manhood  of  her  children.  With  her  mind,  disposition,  taste, 
impulses,  emotions,  devotion,  exertion — in  short,  her  whole  being, 
her  existence,  her  ideals,  her  fancies,  her  aims,  her  objects — in  all 


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and  with  all  she  wields  an  unappreciated  influence  and  power,  and  all 
combine  in  the  molding,  shaping,  fashioning  of  aptitudes,  tendencies, 
characteristics,  nobleness,  and  ability  of  their  children  as  to  their 
personal  makeup,  and  their  ability  to  exert  an  influence  and  to 
become  benefactors  to  the  race  and  true  factors  in  the  development 
of  the  next  generation  for  still  higher  ideals  and  nobler  purposes, 
of  which  our  present  limitations  may  not  now  have  the  faintest  ap- 
prehension. 

Pera.     Hence  her 

LIABILITY 

For  non-performance  of  her  feminine  obligations,  and  her 
RESPONSIBILITY 

In  the  actual  performance  of  them,  to  her  God,  to  her  state  and  to 
her  community. 

Pesa.  Don't  consider  me  a  fanatic  or  factitious,  dear  Lon.  Three 
nights  and  two  days  at  the  bedside  of  my  beloved  husband,  and 
finally  seeing  him  pass  away,  portrays  yet  the  seriousness  of  our  lives 
to  me.  Before  that  time,  I  was  a  thoughtless  girl,  looking  only  for 
enjoyments  and  pleasures  as  other  young  women  do,  cloaking  my 
frivolity  with  a  sort  of  cheap  Christianity.  But  I  thank  God  for  the 
opening  of  my  eyes  and  heart  for  pleasures  and  enjoyments  beyond, 
unalloyed  and  lasting.  My  soul  has  found  other  realms  for  its 
revelries  and  meditations,  infinitely  dearer  and  sweeter  than  carnal 
amusements  and  merriment. 

Peta.  But  think  not,  dear  Lon,  that  my  concern  in  higher  ideals 
and  heavenly  things,  and  the  acknowledgment  of  my  feminine 
obligations  and  responsibilities,  will  make  me  forget  my  obligations 
toward  my  intended  husband.  Far  from  it;  rather  tending  toward 
a  keener  perception  and  fuller  realization  of  everything  that  works 
for  the  happiness  and  enjoyment  of  the  beloved,  without  reservation. 

Peva.  It  is  a  great  relief,  a  profound  satisfaction  to  my  mind  to 
have  found  one  to  whom  I  may  open  my  heart,  hoping  to  be  under- 
stood, to  find  sympathy,  and  to  behold  participation. 

Pewa.     ENVIRONMENT  AND  LITERATURE 

Pexa.  Just  one  other  thing  and  I  am  through.  This  is  with  re- 
gard to  environment  and  literature.  The  intending  mother  should 
never  see  one  of  our  common  dailies,  with  its  caricatures  and  absurd- 
ities and  striking  headlines  of  murder,  robberies  and  accidents, 
which  must  make  unfavorable  impressions  on  the  mother's  mind. 
Neither  should  she  attend  any  theater  or  picture  show  or  anything 
sensational  or  of  a  questionable  character.  In  these  things  I  want 
you  to  become  my  guardian,  dear  Lon,  in  order  that  the  best  possible 
results  of  our  union  may  be  attained.  And  I  have  presented  this 
most  important  problem  to  you  in  writing  before  our  marriage, 
that  we  may  be  ready  for  our  varied  duties  and  obligations  at  the 
entering  in  upon  our  married  life,  not  missing  a  single  opportunity. 

Lovingly,  JULIA. 
Romona,  Hamelana. 


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Peya.     GROWING  INTEREST 

Qeba.  Dearest  Julia:  You  are  growing  in  interest.  I  am  amazed. 
Your  last  letter  I  received  from  your  own  hand  on  my  visit  to  your 
home  Ajja,  Hamelana,  maigzoz,  and  a  dearer,  sweeter  and  more 
important  communication  was  never  placed  in  a  man's  hand  by  a 
woman. 

Qeca.  And  I  want  to  say,  too,  that  you  are  becoming  sweeter 
and  lovelier  the  more  I  associate  with  you,  since  I  now  dare  to  look 
you  squarely  in  the  face  and  in  your  eyes. 

Qeda.  Dearest  sweetheart,  I  say  this  not  to  flatter  your  vanity, 
for  you  are  too  modest  to  tolerate  cheap  and  thin  flattery,  but  I  say 
it  because  I  know  that  you  will  appreciate  to  know  my  feelings  and 
opinion  of  you.  To  my  mind,  feeling  and  heart  there  can  be  found  no 
being  handsomer,  sweeter,  lovelier,  more  virtuous  and  devoted  to 
God  in  Heaven  and  humanity  on  earth  than  you  are. 

Qefa.  Were  all  wives  and  mothers  of  your  kind,  there  would  be 
no  divorces,  but  a  new  race  would  come  forth,  accepting  the  Kingdom 
of  God,  peace  would  dwell  upon  earth  and  good-will  would  rule 
among  men. 


Qega.     DIVINE  GUARDIANSHIP 

Qeha.  Am  I  to  be  entrusted  with  the  guardianship  of  that  sacred 
and  divine  institution,  the  motherhood  of  the  coming  generation?  How 
different  this  responsibility  appears  to  me  now  from  what  it  did 
five  or  six  weeks  ago. 

Qeja.  Well,  beloved,  I  hopefully  and  joyfully  accept  the  respon- 
sibility. I  shall  seek  wisdom  and  strength  and  discernment  at  the 
mercy-seat;  for  I  realize,  in  part  at  least,  my  ignorance  and  weakness, 
and  I  therefore  rely  wholly  upon  the  guidance  of  the  Holy  Spirit, 
having  surrendered  myself  and  all  to  my  Lord  and  Savior  Jesus 
Christ. 

Qeka.  Well,  we  are  fortunate  in  having  our  church  and  Sunday- 
school  to  occupy  our  time  and  attention  on  Sundays,  leaving  no 
room  and  no  desire  to  attend  theaters  or  picture  shows  on  that 
sacred  day. 

Qela.  When  feeling  lonesome,  we  will  visit  friends  and  ask  them 
to  visit  us,  thus  benefiting  by  the  association  with  advanced,  sancti- 
fied men  and  women  in  our  community. 

Qema.  We  shall  discard  all  Sunday  newspapers,  for  these  are  the 
chief  sinners  and  tempters,  being  themselves  Sabbath-breakers,  and 
maintain  but  one  or  two  dailies.  But  these  you  need  not  look  at, 
for  I  will  read  to  you  such  articles  and  extracts  as  relate  to  Congress 
and  general  intelligence,  profitable  and  elevating  to  know  about. 

Qena.  Aside  from  these  we  will  have  our  church  and  missionary 
journals,  one  or  two  horticultural  and  agricultural  journals;  the 
Ladies'  Home  Journal,  The  Youths  Companion,  The  Vindicator  and 
the  Literary  Digest,  which  gives  the  world's  news  in  a  condensed 
form.  A  few  magazines  should  also  find  a  way  into  our  library,  but 
these  we  will  select  with  great  care  and  discrimination. 


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Qepa.  Dearly  beloved,  I  write  this  to  let  you  know  that  I  am  also 
planning  a  little  bit,  but  I  shall  not  decide  upon  any  of  these  things 
until  having  conferred  with  you.  So  this  is  to  be  considered  then 
in  the  way  of  suggestion  only. 

Qeqa.     So  much,  then,  in  answer  to  parts  of  your  letter. 

Qera.     VISIT  TO  PONDEROSA 

Qesa.  I  cannot  close  this  letter  without  disseminating  a  piece  of 
news,  which  I  think  will  both  interest  and  amuse  you. 

Qeta.  I  informed  you,  you  will  remember,  that  I  had  to  attend 
to  some  private  business  in  the  city  of  Ponderosa  the  following  week. 
I  started  accordingly  Affa  Harelana,  kaemzo,  and  arrived  safely 
daegzoz  on  Elucidea  street.  Here  I  noticed  an  announcement  that 
Dr.  Philomath  was  to  lecture  in  the  Divinity  Church  that  evening 
on  the  subject: 

Qeva.     THE  THIRD  DISPENSATION 

Qewa.  I  am  too  poor  a  scribe  to  give  you  much  of  this  remarkable 
lecture,  but  I  shall  try  to  scribble  a  few  extracts.  Dr.  Philomath 
said  in  part : 

"That  the  present  Dispensation,  often  called  the  New  Dispen- 
sation, is  near  its  close.  Great  changes  are  going  to  be  made  for  the 
improvement  and  development  of  the  human  race.  In  the  past, 
attention  has  been  given  chiefly  to  plants  and  stock,  now  the  atten- 
tion must  be  turned  to  men. 

"This  change  is  going  to  be  brought  about  by 


Attraction,  affection  and 


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Qexa.     EVOLUTION  OR  REVOLUTION 
"The  morning  star,  announcing  the  approach  of  the 

GREAT  DAY 

is  discernible  by  the  sages  of  our  time,  but  a  thorough  purging  and 
cleaning  of  the  church  and  the  body  politic  must  be  done  before  that 
day. 

Qeya.  "If  the  confessing  Church  of  Christ  can  be  revived  to  its 
primitive  fidelity,  purity  and  activity,  it  is  the  institution  and  has 
the  means  by  which  the  body  politic  may  be  purged.  But  if  she 
fails  to  see  and  acknowledge  her  duty  as  well  as  her  opportunity, 
then  the 

Reba.     FIRE  OF  REVOLUTION 

and  famine  and  pestilence  will  be  resorted  to,  for  the  purpose  of 
God  must  and  shall  be  accomplished. 

Reca.  "The  Jewish  nation  was  warned  by  her  prophets,  but 
heeded  not.  They  were  therefore  committed  to  the  purgatory  in 
Babylon  for  seventy  long  and  dreary  years,  until  the  old  and  stubborn 
sinners  had  passed  away.  God  has  ways  and  means  to  clear  obstacles 
out  of  the  way,  all  right,  but  He  is  patient  awaiting  our  repentance." 

Reda.     STORED-UP  BLESSINGS 

Refa.  "Among  the  many  blessings  in  store  for  God's  children  to 
enjoy  is  the  utility  and  control  of  the  force  of  gravitation,  which 
will  make  aerial  navigation  a  complete  success.  Time  will  come 
when  men,  women  and  children  will  move  as  readily  and  as  easily  in 
the  air  as  the  fish  in  the  sea,  ascending  and  descending  at  will,  and 
soaring  like  the  mighty  eagle  in  the  blue;  and  man  will  never  be 
satisfied  until  this  feat  is  accomplished.  Then  whole  families  will 
be  seen  ascending,  their  children  playing  hide  and  seek  in  the  clouds, 
having  been  emancipated  from  the  bondage  of  natural  forces,  which 
have  now  come  under  the  new  man's  direction  and  control.  For 
his  Creator  has  ordered  him  to  be  fruitful  and  multiply,  and  to  re- 
plenish the  earth  and  to  subdue  it.  (Gen.  1:28;  Ps.  8:3-6).  By 
subduing  means  the  utility  and  control  of  natural  forces  upon  and 
surrounding  the  earth. 

Rega.  "This  the  prophet  Isaiah  saw,  though  dimly,  3,000  years 
ago:  'Who  are  these  that  fly  as  a  cloud,  and  as  doves  to  their 
windows?'  he  asks. — Isaiah  60:8.  Then  shall  a  person  a  hundred 
years  old  be  considered  as  a  child,  for  the  days  of  a  tree  shall  be  the 
days  of  God's  children  then.'  And  so  well  will  mothers  understand 
their  duties  and  so  well  will  mothers  be  cared  for  that  infant  deaths 
shall  be  almost  unknown.  See  Isaiah  65:19-24. 

Reha.  "Then  shall  aerial  navigation  and  crafts  of  various  kinds 
become  as  general  and  common,  and  as  easily  controlled,  as  the  bi- 
cycle and  automobile  are  now,  and  much  safer.  But  the  nearness  or 
remoteness  of  that  happy,  enjoyable  period  depends  on  the  elevation 
of  society  and  the  standard  of  citizenship. 

Reja.     "The  now  degrading  factors  and  influences,   such  as  the 


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liquor  traffic,  the  saloon  evil  and  prostitution,  gambling,  prize- 
fighting and  all  barbarian  games  and  sports  must  be  entirely  abolished 
and  eradicated  before  the  full 

Reka.     EMANCIPATION 

of  the  human  race  from  the  bondage  of  limitation  and  subjection  to 
the  forces  of  nature  will  or  can  be  proclaimed  by  the 

Rela.     RULER  OF  THE  UNIVERSE 

and  beneficially  enjoyed  by  humanity.  For  as  long  as  man  chooses 
the  lesser  of  two  evils,  contrary  to  the  ordinance  of  his  God,  which  is 
to  shun  all  appearance  of  evil,  or  tolerates  transgression  of  law, 
defiance  of  law,  interference  in  the  execution  of  law;  so  long  will  he 
and  must  he,  necessarily,  by  the  unrelenting  law  of  cause  and  effect; 
by  natural  sequence  of  action  and  reaction;  by  the  natural  similarity 
and  relation  of  seeding  to  harvesting — he  must  in  a  large  measure 
remain  a  prisoner  in  bondage,  subjected  to  the  punishments  of  the 
laws  he  trespasses,  and  be  limited  in  his  sphere  of  activity. 

Rema.  "  Successful  aerial  navigation  under  our  present  conditions 
would  be  a  fearful  curse,  a  deplorable  misfortune.  Just  think  what 
would  happen  if  vicious  men  could  pick  up  their  victims  like  the 
eagle  a  lamb  or  the  cruel  hawk  the  chicken  and  ascend  with  it  to 
their  cliffs  for  a  feast,  who  would  be  safe?  Aerial  navigation  shall 
therefore  crave  many  sacrifices,  but  remain  a  failure,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  man  is  not  ready  for  that  higher  blessing  and  more  refined 
pleasure  and  enjoyment." 


A  typical  Swedish-American  family. 


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Rena.  Thus  spoke  that  wonderful  man.  The  next  evening  it 
was  announced  that  he  would  deliver  a  lecture  on  the  subject 

Repa.     GOD  is  LOVE 
and  his  theme  The  Manifestation  of  God's  Love. 

Reqa.  Of  this  I  can  simply  say  that  it  was  wonderful.  God  had 
revealed  his  power  and  wisdom  in  creation,  He  had  revealed  His 
majesty  and  righteousness  in  dealing  with  the  fallen  angels,  but  two 
other  attributes,  so  dear  to  us,  his  Love  and  His  Mercy,  He  had  not 
yet  had  occasion  or  opportunity  to  reveal.  And  it  was  with  reference 
to  these  that  our  globe  was  chosen  for  His  field  of  attention  and 
operation,  making  of  the  human  race  an  object-lesson  for  all  intelligent 
beings  in  the  universe,  whether  they  be  angels  or  other  intelligent 
creatures,  of  His  divine  love,  His  loving  kindness  and  His  mercy, 
that  these  attributes  might  be  known,  understood  and  appreciated. 
For  the  existence  of  love  can  be  known  and  appreciated  only  by  its 
manifestation. 

Rera.  Well,  dearest  beloved,  these  are  crumbs  only  from  the  rich 
man's  table.  We  hope  to  see  these  lectures  in  print  and  available 
in  all  their  fullness  and  richness  in  the  near  future. 

Resa.  I  long  for  the  happy  day  when  I  shall  have  the  great 
pleasure  of  remaining  with  you  uninterruptedly  and  then  to  put 
into  practice  what  we  have  outlined  in  these  pleasant,  and  for  my 
part,  so  instructive  communications. 

Affectionate  greetings! 
Tuscan,  Hatelana.  Lovingly,  LON. 


Reta.     GREETINGS 

Reva.     BIRTHDAY  GREETINGS 

Rewa.     BEAUTY  OF  EARLY  MARRIAGE 

Rexa.  My  Dear  Wife:  I  want  to  congratulate  you  on  your 
birthday  and  hope  that  you  will  be  spared  for  me  and  our  beloved 
children  until  ripe  old  age,  and  seeing  your  children  in  the  third  or 
even  the  fourth  generation. 

Reya.  A  number  of  our  friends  thought  that  we  married  too 
early,  as  a  bride  of  fifteen  was  something  unusual.  You  could  not 
develop  into  a  strong,  robust  woman,  it  was  said.  And  then,  when 
the  stork  made  his  call  fifteen  months  later,  we  couldn't  take  care  of 
a  baby  or  anything.  But  that  baby  is  now  a  grown  woman,  and  you, 
dear  sweetheart,  look  so  young  that  when  you  and  your  daughter 
walk,  ride  or  sit  together,  people  take  you  to  be  sisters,  though  you 
are  just  now  entering  upon  your  thirty-fifth  summer  and  have  borne 
and  raised  eight  children.  And  during  the  nineteen  years  of  our 
married  life,  you  have  not  only  taken  care  of  your  house,  but  you 
have  been  of  great  assistance  to  me,  a  wife,  a  worthy  helpmate, 
indeed. 


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Seba.  I  have  every  reason  to  ascribe  our  success  in  life  and  the 
establishment  of  our  sweet,  cozy  home  to  your  masterly  housekeeping 
and  ability  to  save  every  crumb  and  to  make  proper  use  of  it,  while 
others  are  kept  poor  by  wasting. 

Seca.  And  you  are  a  queen  of  the  very  first  order,  and  your  hus- 
band and  children  and  generations  to  come  will  bless  you.  You 
have  been  and  you  are  a  blessing,  and  your  lovely  disposition,  your 
sweet  temperament,  your  sacrifices  for  my  comfort  and  the  family, 
which  I  never  can  compensate  you  for,  has  made  you  dearer  and 
sweeter  and  lovelier  day  by  day  and  year  by  year,  until  nowr,  at  this 
year's  birthday,  I  recall  these  things  in  my  mind,  and  I  find  that 
love  is  growing  stronger  and  sweeter  and  our  conjugal  association 
increasingly  pleasing. 

Seda.  When  I  married  you  I  knew  that  I  had  secured  a  neat 
little  silver  mine;  sinking  the  shaft  a  little  deeper  through  trials  and 
hardship,  I  found  it  developing  into  a  gold  mine;  now  it  has  developed 


In  the  shade  of  the  orange  tree.     Happy  grandma  surrounded  by  her  grandchildren. 


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into  a  mine  of  gold,  silver  and  precious  gems  and  stones  of  rarest  quality 
and  brilliancy. 

Sefa.  Accept,  darling  sweetheart,  congratulations  and  cordial 
well-wishes  from 

HUBBY. 

Sega.     BLISSFUL  MATRIMONY 

Seha.  Dearest  Wifie  Sweetheart .  .  I  hasten  to  extend  to  you 
my  cordial  congratulation  on  this  birthday  of  yours.  And  I  want  to 
say  now  that  I  never  understood  what  love  meant  until  I  found 
myself  in  the  warm,  tender  and  caressing  embrace  of  a  fondling 
lovely  bride. 

Seja.  At  first  I  thought  that  it  would  pass  away  with  the  honey- 
moon; but  in  our  case,  at  least,  it  seems  that  the  honeymoon  is 
growing  brighter  and  its  silver  rays  sweeter  every  day. 

Seka.  This  is  a  wonderful  thing,  for  one  who  has  been  out  in  the 
cold  world  alone,  to  find  a  cozy  home,  a  pretty,  lovely  lifemate,  an 
amiable  companion  always  at  hand,  always  ready  to  serve,  and 
always  serving  without  grumbling. 

Sela.  I  thank  you  for  what  you  have  been  and  what  you  are  for 
me,  and  I  hope  to  be  able  to  evidence  my  appreciation  in  a  substan- 
tial way;  but  accept  from  my  hand  and  heart  at  this  time  this  little 
worthless  trinket  as  a  token  of  love  and  appreciation. 

Your  loving  husband. 

Sema.     WIVES  APPRECIATE  CLEAN  HUSBANDS 

Sena.  Dearest  Darling  Husband:  It  is  with  much  pleasure  and 
satisfaction  that  I  send  you  a  birthday  congratulation. 

Sepa.  I  also  send  you  a  few  little  things  which  bear  fingermarks 
of  my  hands.  Accept  these  tokens  of  genuine,  fresh-from-the-heart 
love  and  appreciation. 

Seqa.  The  more  I  see  of  other  dirty,  stinking  men,  who  drink, 
chew  and  smoke,  the  more  intensely  I  love  you,  as  a  clean,  sweet, 
lovely  husband,  and  the  more  I  respect  you  as  a  man  of  character 
and  noble  principles. 

Sera.  I  am  proud  of  you  as  my  beloved  husband,  whose  tender- 
ness of  heart  and  cordial  sympathy  with  me  in  my  feminine  weak- 
nesses and  peculiarities,  always  taking  my  condition,  feelings  and 
preparation  into  consideration,  has  brought  me  so  much  pleasure 
and  enjoyment,  and 

Sesa.  I  am  also  proud  of  you  as  the  father  of  my  children.  Be- 
cause of  your  tenderness  of  heart  and  lovely  tending  and  consider- 
ation during  expectant  motherhood,  my  children  have  not  been 
cross  and  restless  as  many  other  children  are,  and  I  think  that  I  can 
see  in  them  your  noble  disposition,  amiability,  aptitudes  and  char- 
acteristics. God  bless  them  all,  and  God  bless  you. 

Seta.  Darling,  I  have  set  your  line  beyond  the  100  mark.  Now 
you  know! 

Lovingly,  your  devoted  wife. 


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Seva.     SON  TO  HIS  MOTHER 
Sewa.     FILIAL  ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

Sexa.  Dear  Mother:  I  am  just  reminded  that  your  birthday  is 
coming  and  that  I  ought  to  send  you  a  congratulatory  message. 
I  wish  you  many  happy  days  and  years  to  come,  and  I  hope  that  we 
shall  have  the  pleasure  of  celebrating  many  more  of  your  birthdays. 

Seya.  It  is  impossible  for  me  to  express  or  even  to  apprehend  the 
full  meaning  of  your  life,  your  motherly  love,  care,  forbearance, 
prayers,  tears  and  forgiveness  to  me  and  to  all  of  us. 

Teba.  I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  acknowledge,  and  will  have  it 
inscribed  on  your  tombstone,  which  shall  and  will  be  a  monument, 
that  your  motherly  concern  about  me  and  us  all  embraced  our 
spiritual  welfare  as  well  as  temporal  and  bodily  development  and 
need.  This  training  in  a  lovely,  delightful  home  has  been  and  is 
still  of  inestimable  value  to  a  young  man  when  he  starts  out  in  life. 

Teca.  I  send  you  a  small  token  of  love  and  filial  acknowledgment, 
by  which  I  want  to  convey  to  your  mind  and  heart  the  assurance 
that  you  are  not  forgotten;  nor  have  I  lost  sight  of  the  suffering,  the 
fatigue,  the  worry  and  the  tender  motherly  care  you  have  had  for  me. 

Teda.  My  desire  is  to  be  fitted  for  life's  duties  and  responsibilities, 
so  that  my  being  and  my  doing  shall  bring  gladness  and  joy  to  your 
heart. 

Tefa.  By  continual  prevailing  prayer,  I  hope  that  your  work 
and  care  shall  not  have  been  in  vain. 

Tega.     Greetings  of  love  and  filial  gratitude, 

Affectionately,  your  son. 


Teha.     DAUGHTER  TO  HER  MOTHER 
Teja.     A  BLISSFUL  HARVEST 

Teka.  Dearest  Mother:  Your  birthday  has  come  around  again, 
and  I  am  awfully  glad  that  we  have  you  among  us  here  for  the 
celebration  of  it. 

Tela.  We  all  congratulate  you  and  extend  our  sweetest  sentiments 
to  you. 

Tema.  For  many  years  you  have  planted  the  good  seed,  some- 
times in  suffering,  sometimes  in  tears;  now  is  your  time  for  a  blissful 
harvest  and  a  happy  old  age. 

Tena.  God  bless  you,  mother,  and  make  your  days  still  useful 
and  happy  and  your  years  many  among  us! 

Tepa.  With  the  tenderest  embrace  and  barrels  of  love  and  kisses 
I  am  proud  to  acknowledge  you  as  my  mother  and  to  subscribe  my 
name  to  this  birthday  congratulation  as  your  loving  daughter. 

*     *     * 
Teqa.      My  birthday  wish  comes  to  you  nigh,  may  clouds  ne'er  dim 

your  summer  sky, 

When'er  in  life  your  feet  shall  tread,  God  be  your  guide 
and  guard  o'erhead. 


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Tera.      Gather  ye  the  rosebuds  while  ye  may, 

Old  time  is  still  a-flying; 
And  'tis  same  flower  that  smiles  today, 

Tomorrow  may  be  dying. 

Tesa.      Heaven  give  you  many,  many  merry  days! 
Teva.     The  best  wishes  that  can  be  forged  in  our  thoughts  be 
servants  to  you. 

Tewa.     Whatever  joy  or  success  comes  to  you  will  make  me  glad. 
Texa.      May  good  fortune  spin  her  shining  wheel  right  merrily  for 
you. 

Teya.  I  am  thinking  of  you  today  because  it  is  your  birthday, 
and  I  wish  you  happiness,  and  tomorrow,  because  it  will  be  the  day 
after  your  birthday,  I  shall  wish  you  happiness;  and  so  on  clear 
through  the  year. 

Veba.     Peace  be  thy  portion,  no  more  to  depart! 

Bright  be  life's  blossoms,  friend  of  my  heart. 
Veca.     The  ladder  up  to  fame  is  long, 

The  rounds  are  very  far  apart; 
So  he  who  climbs  must  be  a  man, 
And  always  bravely  do  his  part. 
Veda.     The  world  of  Romance,  Life  and  Love, 

Is  like  the  ebb  and  flow  of  tide, 
Affected  by  the  sun  and  moon, 
The  man  or  maiden  at  our  side. 


Vefa.     HAPPY  BIRTHDAY! 
Vega.     CHRISTMAS  GREETINGS 

Veha.     A  very  merry  Christmas-tide  and  happiest  New  Year 

To  you  and  yours  from  me  and  mine,  wealth  and  joy  and 

cheer ! 

A  brimful  cup  of  friendliness,  for  all  you  hold  most  dear. 
Veja.      'Tis  Christmas-tide,  the  time  of  happy  thoughts  and  re- 
membrances. 

Veka.     May  blessings  fair  and  cloudless  be  sent  you  from  above! 
Vela.      Christmas  greeting,  kind  and  true, 

I  send  this  day,  dear  friend,  to  you. 
Vema.    Many  blessings  Christmas  brings, 
On  its  wide  and  glowing  wings, 
May  the  brightest  of  them  all, 

On  your  path  this  season  fall. 

Vena.     Unshadowed  may  thy  Christmas  be!     A  dear  day  that 
foretells  of  many  a  bright  return  for  thee,  on  all  its  chiming  bells. 

Vepa.     The  old  wish  and  the  best — A  Merry  Christmas  and  a 
Happy  New  Year. 

Veqa.     Hail  happy  Christmas-tidel     May  it  impart  joy  to  your 
household,  and  peace  to  your  heart. 

Vera.      When  on  your  listening  ear  the  chimes  of  Christmas  sound, 
May  Peace  and  Plenty  bless  your  Home,  and  Happiness 
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Vesa.     NEW  YEAR  GREETINGS 

Veta.  Again  the  silent  wheels  of  time,  their  annual  round  have 
driven. 

Veva.  From  day  to  day  and  year  to  year,  may  every  happiness 
be  yours. 

Vewa.  Good  health  and  all  prosperity  and  much  happiness  in 
days  to  be. 

Vexa.     May  the  century  that's  new,  bring  much  happiness  to  you, 

And  your  fortune  in  the  old  multiply  a  hundredfold. 
Veya.     With  all  kind  thoughts  and  best  wishes 

May  your  hopes  be  fulfilled, 
And  your  bright  dreams  come  true, 

And  life  smile  right  gaily  on  yours  and  you. 

Weba.  Let  us  settle  all  accounts  and  differences  and  forgive  and 
forget  those  who  may  have  insulted  or  harmed  us,  and  enter  the  new 
year  with  a  balanced  ledger  and  clear  balance  sheet  with  our  God 
and  with  humanity,  determined  to  live  a  better  life,  exhibit  more 
kindness  and  love  during  the  coming  year. 

Weca.     EASTER  GREETING 

Weda.    Like  the  sunshine  after  rain, 

Easter  gladness  comes  again; 
The  risen  Lord  with  you  abide 
And  bless  for  you  this  Eastertide. 

Wefa.     A  COMMONPLACE  LIFE 

Wega.    A  commonplace  life  we  say  and  we  sigh; 

But  why  should  we  sigh  as  we  say? 
The  commonplace  sun  in  the  commonplace  sky 

Makes  up  the  commonplace  day. 
The  moon  and  the  stars  are  commonplace  things, 

And  the  flower  that  blooms  and  the  bird  that  sings, 
But  dark  were  the  world  and  sad  our  lot 

If  the  flowers  failed  and  the  sun  shone  not, 
And  God  who  studies  each  separate  soul, 

Out  of  commonplace  lives  makes  his  beautiful  whole. 

— Susan  Coolidge. 


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ADJECTIVES  AND  ADVERBS 

NOTE.  Adjectives  are  compared  by  adding  "m"  to  the  positive 
for  the  comparative,  and  "ma"  to  the  comparative  for  the  superlative, 
as  uba,  fine;  ubam,  finer;  ubama,  finest. 

Adjectives  are  formed  into  adverbs  by  adding  "1"  to  the  positive, 
as,  ubal,  finely. 

Uba.     Fine.  Buja.  Heavy. 

Uca  (Usha).     Delightful.  Buka.     Light. 

Uda.     Pleasant.  Burka.     Dark. 

Ufa.     Excellent.  Bula.  Right. 

Uga.     Elegant.  Buma.     Wrong. 

Uha.     Nice.  Buna.     Straight. 

Uja.     Cheerful.  Bupa.  Crooked. 

Uka.     Many.  Buqa.  More. 

Ula.     Lovely.  Bura.  Less. 

Uma.     Grand.  Busa.  Near. 

Una.     Fair.  Buta.  Far,  remote. 

Upa.     Few.  Buva.  Durable. 

Uqa.     Simple.  Buwa.     Adjacent. 

Ura.     Good.  Buxa.  Nothing. 

Usa.     Cheap.  Buya.  Nowhere. 

Uta.     Dear,  expensive.  Ulba.  Very. 

Uva.     Enough,  sufficient.  Ulca.  Now. 

Uwa.     Excessive.  Ulda.  Soon. 

Uxa.     Inferior.  Ulfa.  False. 

Uya.     Unusual.  Ulga.  Honest. 

Buba.     Long.  Ulha.  Dishonest. 

Buca.     Short.  Ulja.  Farewell. 

Buda.     Strong.  Ulka.  Fashionable. 

Bufa.     Weak.  Ulla.  Fast. 

Buga.     Much.  Ulma.     Slow. 
Buha.     Little,  small. 


PRONOUNS 

Ebo.     I,  myself,  me. 

Ebom.     My,  mine. 

Eco.     (Esho).     You,  thou,  thee. 

Ecom.     (Eshom).     Your,  yours,  thine. 

Edo.     We. 

Edom.     Our,  ours. 

Efo.     He,  him,  it. 

Efom.     His,  its. 

Ego.     She,  her. 

Egom.     Her,  hers. 

Eho.     They,  them. 

Ehom.     Their,  theirs. 

Ejo.     Himself,  herself,  itself  (all  genders). 

Ejom.     His,  hers,  its  (all  genders). 


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VERBS 

(NOTE.  Verbs  ending  in  a  vowel  signify  presence  or  action  now; 
ending  in  "n"  signify  action  in  the  past;  ending  in  "d"  signify  action 
in  the  future,  and  ending  in  "t"  signify  the  negative,  denial,  protest, 
as  "Oba,"  go,  walk;  "Obat,"  do  not  go  or  walk;  "Oban,"  did  go,  did 
walk,  went;  "Obant,"  didn't  go  or  walk;  "Obad,"  will  go,  will  walk; 
"Obadt,"  will  not  or  won't  go  or  walk.  The  negative  ending  in  "t" 
will  be  easy  to  remember  for  all  English,  German  and  Swedish  speak- 
ing people,  as  we  have  the  "  'nt"  in  English,  "nicht"  in  German,  and 
"intet"  in  Swedish.  Also  the  Latin  nations,  who  use  the  Latin 
"nihil"  to  designate  nothing,  will  readily  comprehend  the  negative 
idea  indicated.  Reminding  always  that  the  object  of  this  work  is 
Brevity,  Simplicity,  Legibility,  we  contract  and  bring  as  many  ele- 
ments together  in  one  word  or  sentence  as  may  easily  and  distinctly 
produce  a  mind-picture,  just  as  a  landscape  or  a  painting  brings  a 
picture  to  the  mind,  imbuing  perceptions  and  fashioning  ideas  and 
ideals) . 

EXAMPLES 
Ebo.     I  myself. 
Oba.     Go,  walk. 
Eboba.     I  go,  I  walk. 
Eboban.     I  did  go,  I  went. 
Ebobad.     I  will  go,  I  will  be  going. 
Ebobat.     I  am  not  going,  I  am  not  walking. 
Ebobant.     I  didn't  go  or  walk. 
Ebobadt.     I  won't  go,  I  am  not  going  to  walk. 

EXAMPLES 
Edo.     We. 
Oka.     Sell. 
Edo-oka. 
Edoka.     We  sell. 

Edokan.     We  have  sold,  we  did  sell. 
Edokad.     We  will,  are  going  to  sell. 
Edokadt.     We  are  not  going  to  sell,  we  won't  sell. 
Edokat.     We  will  not  sell. 
Edokant.     We  did  not  sell. 

Oma.     VERBS 
Oba.     To  go,  to  walk. 
Oban.     Have  gone,  did  go,  went. 
Obad.     Will  go,  will  be  going. 
Obat.     Not  to  go,  not  going. 
Obant.     Didn't  go,  haven't  gone. 
Obadt.     Won't  go,  shall  not  go. 
Oca  (Osha).     Do,  make,  work. 
Ocan.     Did  do,  did  make,  did  work. 
Ocad.     Will  do,  will  make,  will  work. 
Ocat.      Not  to  do,  not  to  make,  not  doing. 
Ocant.     Did  not  do,  did  not  make,  did  not  work. 


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Ocadt.     Will  not  do,  shall  not  make,  am  not  going  to  work. 

Oda.     To  ship,  shipping  attended  to. 

Odan.     Have  shipped,  the  shipping  has  been  attended  to. 

Odad.     Will  ship,  will  attend  to  the  shipping. 

Obat.     Not  to  ship,  not  shipping. 

Obant.     Did  not  ship,  did  not  attend  to  shipping. 

Obadt.     Won't  ship,  shall  not  do  or  attend  to  shipping. 

Ofa.     To  take,  to  seize,  to  secure. 

Ofan.     Have  taken,  seized,  secured. 

Ofad.     Will  take,  seize,  secure. 

Ofat.     Not  to  take,  seize,  secure. 

Ofant.     Did  not  take,  seize,  secure. 

Ofadt.     Will  not  take,  seize,  secure. 

Oga.     Choose,  select. 

Ogan.     Have  chosen,  did  select. 

Ogad.     Will  choose,  will  select,  will  be  selecting. 

Ogat.     Not  to  choose,  not  selecting. 

Ogant.     Did  not  choose,  have  not  selected. 

Ogadt.     Will  not  choose,  shall  not  select. 

Oha.     To  prefer. 

Oja.     To  will,  to  desire,  to  want. 

Oka.     To  sell,  to  dispose  of. 

Ola.     To  buy,  to  purchase,  to  secure. 

Oma.     To  manage,  to  handle. 

Ona.     To  attend  to,  to  take  care  of. 

Opa.     To  make  charges,  to  charge  to  account. 

Oqa.     To  pack,  packing  attended  to. 

Ora.     To  talk,  to  speak,  to  converse. 

Osa.     To  accept,  to  receive. 

Ota.     To  refuse,  to  decline,  to  reject,  to  deny,  to  repel. 

Ova.     To  order,  to  demand,  to  request. 

Owa.     To  receipt,  to  acknowledge,  to  admit. 

Oxa  (Ocha,  Otja).     To  return,  to  send  back. 

Oya.     To  come. 

Sorba.     To  control,  to  direct,  to  govern. 

Sorca  (Sorsha).     To  neglect,  to  ignore. 

Sorda.     To  inflict,  to  impose. 

Sorfa.     To  cry,  to  shout,  to  yell. 

Sorga.     To  weep,  to  bewail. 

Sorha.     To  pity,  to  deplore,  to  lament. 

Sorja.     To  sorrow,  to  sadden,  to  distress,  to  grieve. 

Sorka.     To  admonish,  to  reprove,  to  counsel,  to  advise. 

Sorla.     To  rejoice,  to  gladden. 

Sorma.     To  excuse,  to  condone,  to  vindicate. 

Sorna.     To  forgive,  to  pardon. 

Sorpa.     To  regret,  to  lament,  to  remorse. 

Sorqa.     To  chastise,  to  punish. 

Sora.     To  anguish,  to  despair,  to  remorse. . 

Sorsa.     To  help,  to  assist,  to  support. 

Sorta.     To  administer,  to  control,  to  govern. 


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Sorva.     To  serve,  to  minister,  to  obey. 

Sorwa.     To  appoint,  to  nominate,  to  select,  to  choose. 

Sorxa  (Sorcha).     To  petition,  to  entreat,  to  supplicate,  to  solicit. 

Sorya.     To  reconcile,  to  reunite,  to  adjust. 

Loba.  Can.     Loya.     To  be. 

Loca.  Is,  am,  are. 

Loda.  Have. 

Lofa.  Shall. 

Loga.  Balance. 

Loha.  Debit. 

Loiha.     To  meet. 

Loja.  Credit. 

Loka.  Consign. 

Loika.     Money. 

Lola.  Exchange. 

Loma.     Fluctuate. 

Lona.  Protest. 

Lopa.  Honor. 

Loqa.  Quote. 

Lora.  Advance. 

Losa.  Lose,  loss,  lost. 

Lota.  Check. 

Lova.  Profit. 

Lowa.     Draft. 

Loxa.  Snow. 

Rora.  Rain. 

Oliba.  To  eat,  eating. 

Olba.  To  breakfast,  to  eat  breakfast. 

Olca  (Olsha).     To  dine,  to  eat  dinner. 

Olda.  To  supper,  to  eat  supper. 

Olfa.  To  arrive. 

Olga.  To  leave. 

Olha.  To  like,  to  appreciate. 

Olja.  To  love,  to  cherish. 

Olka.  To  feel,  to  sympathize. 

Olla.  To  hate,  to  abhor,  to  detest. 

Olma.     To  please,  to  satisfy. 

Olna.  To  delight,  to  enjoy. 

Olpa.  To  see,  to  behold,  to  observe. 

Olqa.  To  burn,  to  consume. 

Olra.  To  send,  to  be  sent. 

Olsa.  To  stipulate,  to  contract,  to  lease. 

Olta.  To  check,  to  hinder,  to  delay. 

Olva.  To  move,  to  change. 

Olwa.  To  deceive,  to  delude,  to  mislead  by  falsehood. 

Olxa  (Olcha).     To  cheat,  to  defraud,  to  delude,  to  deceive. 

Olya.  To  continue,  to  be  consistent. 

Soba.  To  add. 

Soca  (Sosha).     To  subtract. 

Soda.  To  multiply. 


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Sofa.  To  divide. 

Soga.  To  remember. 

Soha.  To  affect. 

Soja.  To  effect. 

Soka.  To  educate. 

Sola.  To  increase. 

Soma.  To  decrease. 

Sona.  To  diminish,  belittle,  degrade. 

Sopa.  To  cleanse,  to  purge. 

Soqa.  To  encroach,  to  interfere. 

Sora.  To  feed,  to  nourish. 

Sosa.  Txfpreserve,  to  keep  in  safety. 

Sota.  To'cut,  to  slash. 

Sova.  To  sleep. 

Sowa.  To  rest,  to  recreate. 

Soxa  (Socha).     To  write. 

Soya.  To  subscribe. 

Roba.  To  ratify. 

Roda.  To  decipher. 


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ENGLISH  DIAL 


Abhor.     Olla. 
Accept.     Osa. 
Acknowledge.     Owa. 
Admit.     Owa. 
Admonish.     Sorka. 
Advise.     Sorka. 
Add.     Soba. 
Adjust.     Sorya. 
Adjacent.     Buwa. 
Administer.     Sorta. 
Advance.     Lora. 
Affect.     Soha. 
Agnostic.     Alpah. 
Aisle.     Axaw. 
Alfalfa.     Sas. 
Almonds,  soft  shell.     Qat. 
Almonds,  paper  shell.     Qav. 
Almonds,  hard  shell.     Qaw. 
Almonds,  bitter.     Qax. 
Altar.     Axas. 
Am.     Loca. 
Ambassador.     Apay. 
Ancestor.     Anap. 
Anguish.     Sorra. 
Ankle.     Awaj. 
Anteroom.     Ayab. 
Apricots,  canned.     Afax. 
Apples.     Law. 
Apples,  summer.     Lax. 
Apples,  fall.     Lay. 
Apples,  winter.     Lays. 
Appoint.     Sorwat 
Appreciate.     Olha. 
Arm.     Awal. 
Arrest.     Araq. 
Arteries.     Atad. 
Arrive.     Oya,  alfa. 
Asparagus.     Max. 
Ass.    Vag. 
Assist.     Sorsa. 
Assessor.     Araw. 
Atheist.     Alpag. 
Attend.     Ona. 
Attic.     Xah. 
Atonement.     Almap. 
Attorney  general.     Apaw. 
Auditorium.     Axax. 


Auditor.     Arax. 
Aunt.     Anag. 
Automobile.     Ajax. 
Axle.     Alas. 

B 

Back.     Avaq. 
Baggage.     Apev. 
Bailiff.     Arak. 
Balance.     Loga. 
Bananas.     Lav,  agah. 
Baptism.     Almav. 
Baptizing.     Almaw. 
Base-burner.     Xap. 
Bass.     Afaj. 
Barley.     Tal. 
Barley,  crushed.     Say. 
Bathroom.     Xab. 
Bay  window.     Xag. 
Beans,  canned  string.     Afar. 
Beans,  Boston.     Afat. 
Bedroom.     Way. 
Bed,  double  iron.     Abad. 
Bed,  single  iron.     Abaf. 
Beef,  canned  corn.     Afay. 
Beef,  canned  dried.     Agac. 
Beets.     Nag. 
Behold.     Olpa. 
Belittle.     Sona. 
Berries.     Pat. 
Beseeching.     Almaj. 
Bewail.     Sorga. 
Bicycle.     Akac. 
Bile.     Atax. 
Biscuits.     Acah. 
Blackberries.     Pay. 
Blackberries,  mammoth.     Qab. 
Bladder.     Atan. 
Block.     Anev. 
Blood.     Atah. 
Boar.     Waf. 
Bolster.     Alat. 
Brain.     Asag. 
Brahma.     Alpac. 
Brahminism.     Alpad. 
Bran.     Tab. 
Bread.     Acac. 
Bread,  wheat.     Acad. 


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Bread,  rye.     Acaf. 

Bread,  graham.     Acag. 

Bread,  butter,  and  cheese.  Amed. 

Bread  pan.     Yag. 

Breakfast.     Olba. 

Breakfast  food.     Acar. 

Breathing.     Atab. 

Breast.     Avap. 

Bridle.     Sac. 

Brother.     Anac. 

Bug.     Oka. 

Buggy.    Ajar. 

Buggy  harness.     Sax. 

Buggy  top.     Ajas. 

Buggy  shaft.     Ajat. 

Buddha.     Alnay. 

Buddhism.     Alpab. 

Bull.     Tas. 

Bureau.     Abak. 

Burn.     Olqa. 

Business.     Awat. 

Buttermilk.     Ajaf. 

Butter.     Ameg. 

C 

Cabbage.     Mav. 
Calf.     Taw. 
Call.    Kail. 
Can.     Loba. 
Canteloupes.     Rag. 
Canned  goods.     Afan. 
Cambric.     Ahec. 
Carrier.     Alak. 
Carriage.     Ajaq. 
Carp.     Afac. 
Carpets.     Abap. 
Carpet,  Brussels.     Abaq. 
Carpet,  velvet.     Abar. 
Carrots.     Nad. 
Cart.     Ajaw. 
Catfish.     Afal. 
Cauliflower.     Maw. 
Cayenne  pepper.     Nan. 
Catholic.     Alnat. 
Celery.     Naj. 
Cellar.     Xaj. 
Chamber.     Aban. 
Chair.     Yas. 
Chair,  rocking.     Yat. 
Chair,  office.     Yay. 


Chair,  diningroom.     Yav. 
Change.     Olva. 
Charge.     Opa. 
Chastise.     Sorqa. 
Cheese.     Ameh. 
Cherish.     Olja. 
Check.     Olta,  lota. 
Cheat.     Olxa. 
Chestnut.     Qaq. 
Cheap.     Usa. 
Cheek.     Awaf. 
Cheerful.     Uja. 
Cheviot.     Ager. 
Chin.     Awag. 
Child.     Anab. 
Chimney.     Xak. 
Chickens.     Vat. 
Choose.     Oga,  sorwa. 
Choir.     Ayak. 
Christian.     Alnas. 
Christian  Alliance.     Alnac. 
Circulation.     Atag. 
City.     Apaf. 
Cloudberries.     Qak. 
Closet.     Xac. 
Clover.     Saq. 
Cleanse.     Sopa. 
Cockerel.     Vav. 
Cod.    Aday. 
Coffee.     Ahal. 
Coffee  pot.     Yac. 
Coffee,  Java.     Aham. 

"       Mocha.     Ahan. 

"       green.     Ahap. 

"       roasted.     Ahaq. 

"       blended.     Ahar. 

"       ground.     Ahas. 
Colt.  Van. 
Collar.     Saf. 
Collection.     Alnah. 
Colon.     Ataw. 
Community.     Anav. 
Come.     Oya. 
Consume.     Olqa. 
Contract.     Olsa. 
Continue.     Olya. 
Consistent.     Olya. 
Converse.     Ora. 
Control.     Sorpa,  sorta. 
Condone.     Sorma. 


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Consign.     Loka. 
Consul.     Aqab. 
Converting.     Almaq. 
Congregation.     Almac. 
Cookies.     Acal. 
Corn,  Indian.     Tap. 
Corn,  kaffir.     Taq. 
Corn  flakes.     Acat. 
Cornmeal.     Agas. 
Corn,  canned  sweet.     Agas. 
Cornet.     Ayat. 
Counter.     Anax. 
County  clerk.     Arav. 
Court,  Justice.     Arad. 

"       Superior.     Araf. 

"       Supreme.     Arag. 
Counsel.     Sorka. 
Cousin.     Anak. 
Cow.     Tat. 
Crackers.     Acak. 
Credit.     Loja. 
Cry.     Sorfa. 
Crooked.     Bupa. 
Cranberries.     Qaj. 
Cream.     Amef. 
Cucumbers.     Rah. 
Currants.     Qaf. 
Curtains.     Abat. 
Curtains,  roller.     Abav. 
Curtains,  lace.     Abaw. 
Cultivator.     Akam. 
Cut.     Sota. 


D 

Danger.     Axam. 
Day.     Sola. 
Daughter.     Amay. 
Deacon.     Ayag. 
Dear,  expensive.     Uta. 
Debit.     Loha. 
Degrade.     Sona. 
Decrease.     Soma. 
Delude.     Olxa. 
Defraud.     Olxa. 
Deceive.     Olwa. 
Delay.     Olta. 
Delight.     Olna. 
Delightful.     Uca. 
Detest.     Olla. 
Despair.     Sorra. 


Deserve.     Oja. 
Decline.     Ota. 
Demand.     Ora. 
Deplore.     Sorha. 
Dewberries.     Pav. 
Decipher.     Roda. 
Digestion.     Atay. 
Dine.     Olca. 
Dining  room.     Wap. 
Diminish.     Sona. 
Direct.     Sorba. 
Dispose.     Oka. 
Distress.     Sorja. 
Dishpan.     Yah. 
Dishonest.     Ulha. 
Divide.     Sofa. 
Do,  did.     Oca. 
Dog.     Var. 
Donation.     Awas. 
Double-tree.     Alay. 
Doughnuts.     Acap. 
Dove.     Wac. 
Draft.     Lowa. 
Dresser.     Abaj. 
Drinks.     Ajad. 
Drill.     Akaq. 
Dry  goods.     Agem. 
Duck,  ducks.     Vax. 
Duet.     Ayam. 
Durable.     Buva. 
Dwelling  house.     Wak. 

E 

Ear.     Asal. 
Eat.     Olza. 
Educate.     Soka. 
Eel.     Afam. 
Effect.     Soja. 
Eggplants.     Nah. 
Egg  soda.     Ajak. 
Elbow.     Xam. 
Elbows.     Avak. 
Elegant.     Uga. 
Elder.     Ayaf. 
Emperor.     Apam. 
Encroach.     Soqa. 
Engineer.     Arlay. 
Enough.     Uva. 
Enjoy.     Olna. 
Entreat.     Sorxa. 


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Epworth  League.     Alnab. 
Evening.     Axac. 
Ewe.     Vac. 
Exchange.     Lola. 
Excuse.     Sorma. 
Excellent.     Ufa. 
Expensive.     Uta. 
Excessive.     Uwa. 
Eye.     Asar. 
Eyebrow.     Asah. 
Eyelid.     Asaj. 


Fair.     Una. 
Family.     Anal. 
False.     Ulfa. 
Falsehood.     Olwa. 
Far.     Buta. 
Farewell.     Ulja. 
Farming  utensils.     Akad. 
Fashionable.     Ulca* 
Fast.     Ulla. 
Father.     Amav. 
Feed.     Sora. 
Feel.     Olka. 
Fellows.     Amag. 
Female.     Amap. 
Few.     Upa. 
Fine.     Uba. 
Fingers.     Avad. 
Finger  nails.     Avaf. 
Fish.     Adaq. 
Flavors.     Agad. 
Flour.     Agam. 
Flour,  wheat.     Agan. 

rye.     Agap. 

graham.     Agaq. 

buckwheat.     Agar. 
Fluctuate.     Loma. 
Flute.     Ayav. 
Foot,  feet.    Avag. 
Forehead.     Asad. 
Foreign  Mission.     Alnap. 
Forgive.     Sorna. 
Forgiveness.     Almar. 
Front  room  set.     Abab. 
Frying  pan.     Xav. 
Fruit.     Lam. 


G 

Gallery.     Axay. 
Genealogy.     Anas. 
Generation.     Anaq. 
Germea.     Acax. 
Ginger  snaps.     Acam. 
Ginghams.     Agew. 
Girth.     Sak. 
Gladden.     Sorla. 
Glucose.     Ahak. 
Go.     Oba. 
Goat.     Vaf. 
Goat,  billy.     Vag. 
Goat,  nanny.     Vah. 
Goose,  geese.    Vay. 
Gooseberries.     Qad. 
Good.     Ura. 
Govern.     Sorba. 
Grain.     Faf. 
Grapes.     Pap. 
Grapes,  raisin.     Paq. 

"       wine.     Par. 

"      table.     Pas. 
Grapefruit.     Lat. 
Grand.     Uma. 
Green  peas.     Nap. 
Grieve.     Sorge. 
Gridiron.     Xax. 
Griddle.     Xay. 
Guilty.     Aram. 
Guitar.     Ayax. 

H 

Hail.     Loga. 
Hair.     Asak. 
Ham,  canned.     Agab. 
Hames.     Sag. 
Halter.     Raw. 
Halibut.     Afab. 
Hallowing.     Almat. 
Handle.     Oma. 
Hand  rake.     Alac. 
Hand.     Avab. 
Harrow.     Akan. 
Harm.     Axal. 
Hate.     Alia. 
Hay.     Sap. 

"     grain.     Sat. 

"     wheat.     Sav. 


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Hay,  barley.     Saw. 

"     oat.     Sax. 
Haymow.     Ras. 
Hay  rake.     Akaw. 
Hay  fork.     Alaj. 
Hay  rack.     Alax. 
Have.     Loda. 
Hazelnut.     Qas. 
Heating.     Xan. 
Heathen.     Alnaw. 
Heavy.     Buja. 
Head.     Asac. 
Hear.     Asam. 
Heart.     Atac. 
Heifer.     Tav. 
Help.     Sorsa. 
Hens.     Vas. 
Herring.     Adav. 
Hinder.     Olta. 
Hip.    Avas. 
Hoe.    Alag. 
Hog.    Wag. 
Honor.     Lopa. 
Home,  mission.     Alnan. 
Honest.     Ulga. 
Horses.     Vak. 
Hounds,  fore.     Amaj. 

"         hind.     Amak. 
Hub.     Amad. 
Human  body.     Asab. 
Humanity.     Amam. 
Husband.     Amas. 
Hydrant.     Yal. 


Ignore.     Sorca. 
Imploring.     Almak. 
Impose.     Sorda. 
Increase.     Sola. 
Inflict.     Sorda. 
Infidel.     Alpaf. 
Inferior.     Uxa. 
Innocent.     Aran. 
Instructor.     Alyay. 
Interfere.     Soqa. 
Interpreter.     Araj. 
Intestines.     Atav. 
Is.     Loca. 


Jew.     Alnar. 
Jewish  Mission.     Alnag. 
Jumpers.     Adel. 
Juniper  ale.     Ajam. 
Jury.     Arab. 

K 

Keep.     Sosa. 
Kettle.     Xart. 
Kid.     Vaj. 
Kidneys.     Atam. 
King.     Apal. 
King  bolt.     Amah. 
Kitchen.     Waq. 
Kitchen  utensils.     Xaq. 
Knapsack.     Apex. 
Knee.     Avav. 


Lament.     Sorha. 
Lamb.     Vad. 
Leave.     Olga. 
Lease.     Olsa. 
Leg.     Awak. 
Lemon.     Agag,  Ian. 
Lemonade.     Ajag. 
Less.     Bura. 
Lettuce.     May. 
Light.     Buka. 
Like.     Olha. 
Lines.     Sad. 
Lips.     Ataj. 
Little.     Buha. 
Liver.     Atal. 
Loaf  of  bread.     Acaj. 
Lobster.     Afaf. 
Loins.     Avar. 
Loganberries.     Pax. 
Long.     Buba. 
Look.     Awad. 
Lose.     Losa. 
Loss.     Losa. 
Lost.     Losa. 
Lounge.     Abag. 
Lovely.     Ula. 
Lord's  Supper.     Almax. 
Love.     Olja. 
Luggage.     Apew. 
Lungs.     Asax. 


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M 

Make.     Oca. 
Mackerel.     Adat. 
Male.     Aman. 
Manage.     Oma. 
Manger.     Rav. 
Manure  spreader.     Akar. 
Man.     Amaq. 
Many.     Uka. 
Mare.     Vam. 
Mastication.     Avay. 
Meal.     Axan. 
Milk.     Ajad. 
Milk  soda.     Ajaj. 
Mill  feed.     Toe. 
Mislead.     Olwa. 
Mission.     Alnam. 
Mohammedan.     Alnax. 
More.     Buqa. 
Morning.     Axab. 
Mother.     Amaw. 
Mouth.     Atas. 
Move.     Give. 
Mouldboard.     Akah. 
Mower.     Akas. 
Much.     Buga. 
Mule.     Vap. 
Multiply.     Soda. 
Music.    Ayap. 
Muskmelons.     Raf. 
Muslin.     Aheb. 


N 

Nation.     Apab. 
Near.     Busa. 
Neck.     Avan. 
Neglect.     Sorcha. 
Nephew.     Anah. 
Nice.     Uha. 
Niece.     Anaj. 
Night.     Axaf. 
Nonimate.     Sorwa. 
Nonsense.     Axaj. 
Noon.     Axad. 
Nose.     Asan. 
Nostrils.     Asaq. 
Nothing.     Buxa. 
Nourish.     Sora. 


Now.     Ulca. 
Nowhere.     Buya. 
Nuisance.     Axak. 
Nuts.     Qal. 


0 


Oats.    Tarn. 
Oat-flakes.     Acaw. 
Observe.     Olpa. 
Offering.     Alnak. 
Officers.     Apaj. 
Offspring.     Anar. 
Oilcake.     Tab. 
Onions.     Nar. 
Oranges.     Lap. 
Oranges,  Valencia.     Laq. 

Mediterranean.     Lav 

navel.     Las. 
Order.     Ova. 
Organ.     Avar. 
Organist.     Ayas. 
Overalls.     Adek. 


Pack.     Oqa. 
Package.     Aqed. 
Palm.     Avam. 
Pantry.     War. 
Parasol.     Awax. 
Parlor.     Warn. 
Parsnips.     Nac. 
Pardon.     Sorna. 
Pastor.     Almab. 
Pay.     Sta. 
Pears.     Mab. 
Pears,  summer.     Mac. 
"      fall.     Mad. 

Bartlett.     Mag. 
"       canned.     Afaw. 
Peaches.     Nav. 
Peaches,  freestone.     Naw. 

clings.     Nax. 

"         early  Crawford.      Nay. 
Foster.     Pab. 
St.  John.     Pac. 
Elberta.     Pad. 
"         Susquehanna.     Paf. 


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Peaches,  Muir.     Paq. 
Lovel.     Pah. 

"         Salloway.     Paj. 

"     Seller's  orange  cling.   Pak. 
Elberta  cling.     Pal. 

"         Phillip's  cling.     Pam. 

"        Heath  cling.     Pan. 

canned.     Afav. 
Peas,  canned.     Afaq. 
Pecan.     Qar. 
Penitentiary.     Aras. 
Perch.     Afah. 
Petition.     Sorxa. 
Pews.     Axav. 
Persimmons.     Mav. 
Phenomenal  berries.     Qac. 
Pies.     Acay. 
Pie,  apple.     Adab. 
"     peach.     Adac. 
"     pumpkin.     Adad. 
"     custard.     Adaf. 
"     mince.     Adag. 
"     blackberry.     Adaj. 
Piano.     Ayaq. 
Pike.     Afag. 
Pineapple.     Nal. 
Pineapple  flavor.     Agaj. 
Pitchfork.     Alah. 
Pity.     Sorha. 
Please.     Olma. 
Pleasant.     Uda. 
Pleading.     Almah. 
Plow.     Akaf. 
Plow  handle.     Akaf. 
Plowlay.     Akaj. 
Plow,  gang.     Akak. 
Plow,  sulky.     Akal. 
Plums.     Mah. 
Plum,  Wickson.     Maj. 

"       Burbank.     Mak. 
Setzuma.     Mai. 
Pole.     Ajav. 

Political  divisions.     Anaf. 
Postmaster-general.     Apax. 
Porch.     Was. 
Portico.     Wav. 
Pomegranate.     Mas. 
Potatoes.     Qay. 
Praying.     Almag. 
Preserve.     Sosa. 


Prefer.     Oha. 
Precinct.     Apah. 
President.     Apak. 
Premier.     Apan. 
Preaching.     Almad. 
Prints.     Agex. 
Prison.     Arar. 
Profit.     Lova. 
Promise.     Proma. 
Protest.     Lona. 
Provisions.     Acab. 
Protestant.     Alnav. 
Prunes,  French.     Mam. 
"       sugar.     Man. 
Silver.     Map. 
"       Hungarian.     Maq. 
Pudding.     Adak. 
Pudding,  bread.     Adal. 

custard.     Adam. 

tapioca.     Adan. 

rice.     Adap. 
Pullet.     Vaw. 
Pulpit.     Axat. 
Pump.     Yak. 
Pumpkins.     Rand. 
Punish.     Sorqa. 
Purchase.     Ola. 
Purge.     Sopa. 

Q 

Quote.     Loqa. 
Quartette.     Ayal. 

R 

Radish.     Nab. 
Rain.     Rora. 
Raisins.     Raj. 
Raisins,  Muscatel.     Rak. 
Malaga.     Ral. 

"      Thompson  seedless.    Ram 

"        seedless  Sultana.     Ran. 

"        seeded  Muscatel.     Rap. 

"        seeded  Malaga.     Raq. 
Rake.     Akav. 
Range.     Xar. 
Raspberry  flavor.     Agal. 
Raspberries.     Paw. 
Ram.     Vab. 
Razor.     Afek. 


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Ratify.     Roba. 
Reaper.     Akax. 
Reach.     Alar. 
Recreate.     Sowa. 
Receive.     Osa. 
Reconcile.     Sorya. 
Recorder.     Aray. 
Red  Whortleberries.     Qah. 
Regret.     Sorpa. 
Refuse.     Ota. 
Reject.     Ota. 
Rejoice.     Sorla. 
Relative.     Anam. 
Relation.     Anan. 
Remote.     Buta. 
Remember.     Soga. 
Remorse.     Sorpa. 
Reservoir.     Xas. 
Reunite.     Sorya. 
Request.     Ova. 
Reprove.     Sorka. 
Return.     Oxa. 
Repel.     Ota. 
Rest.     Sowa. 
Respiration.     Atab. 
Revival.     Alman. 
Rice.     Agat. 
Right.     Bula. 
Rolled  oats.     Acaw. 
Rope.    Awaw. 
Roadster.     Akab. 
Room.     Wai. 
Root  beer.     Ajal. 
Rug.    Abas. 
Running  gear.     Amal. 
Rye.     Tak. 


Sadden.     Sorja. 

Saddle.     Saj. 

Salary.     Awar. 

Salmon.     Adar. 

Sandwiches.     Acaq. 

Satisfy.     Olma. 

Scythe.     Alab. 

Secure.     Ofa. 

Secretary  of  State.     Apan. 

of  the  Interior.     Apap, 
of  War.     Apaq. 
"         of  the  Navy.     Apar. 


Secretary  of  the  Treasury.     Apas 
of  Agriculture.     Apat. 
of  Commerce  and 
Labor.     Apav. 

See.     Olpa,  asas. 

Seeder.     Akap. 

Seize.     Ofa. 

Send.     Olra. 

Sell.    Oka. 

Select.     Oga. 

Self-binder.     Akay. 

Sentence.     Arap. 

Sermon.     Almaf. 

Serve.     Sorva. 

Shaft.     Ajat. 

Shall.     Lofa. 

Sheep.    Tay. 

Sheeting.     Ahed. 

Ship.     Oda. 

Shout.     Sorpa. 

Shoulders.     Avaj. 

Short.     Buca. 

Shovel.     Alad. 

Shrimp.     Afad. 

Sickle.     Akat. 

Silk.    Agep. 

Singing.     Ayag. 

Single  tree.     Amac. 

Singer.     Ayay. 

Sinner.     Alpaj. 

Simple.     Uqa. 

Sink.     Yaj. 

Sister.     Anad. 

Sitting  room.     Wan. 

Skillet.     Xaw. 

Skin.     Avaw. 

Slash.     Sota. 

Sleep.     Sova. 

Slow.     Ulma. 

Small.     Buha. 

Smell.     Asap. 

Snails.     Acan. 

Snow.     Loca. 

Soda  water.     Ajah. 

Sofa.    Abah. 

Solicit.     Sorxa. 

Sole.    Adas. 

Solo.     Ayan. 

Son.     Amax. 

Soon.     Ulda. 


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Sorrow.     Sorja. 
Sow.     Wag. 
Spade.     Alaf. 
Speak.     Ora. 
Spinach.     Nak. 
Spokes.     Amaf. 
Spur.     Sam. 
Squash.     Vac. 
Stall.     Rat. 
Stallion.     Val. 
Stairway.     Waw. 
Starch.     Agaw. 
Starch,  corn.     Agax. 
State.     Anay. 
Steer.     Tax. 
Stipulate.     Olsa. 
Stirrup.     Sal. 
Stomach.     Atat. 
Storm.     Axah. 
Stovepipe.     Xal. 
Strainer.     Yaf. 
Straight.     Buna. 
Strap.     Awav. 
Street  car.     Anes. 
Street.     Anet. 
String  beans.     Naq. 
Strawberries.     Qag. 
Strawberry  flavor.     Agak. 
Strong.     Buda. 
Subscribe.     Soya. 
Subscription.     Alnaj. 
Subtract.     Soca. 
Sufficient.     Uva. 
Sugar.     Agay. 
Sugar,  cane.     Ahab. 

"       beet.     Abac. 

"       granulated.     Ahad. 

"       cube.     Ahaf. 

"       loaf.     Ahag. 

"       dominoe.     Ahah. 

"       brown.     Ahaj. 
Suitcases.     Afeg. 
Sunday-school.     Alna. 
Sunday-school  Superintendent. 

Alnaf. 

Sunday-school  teacher.     Alnag. 
Supper.     Olda. 
Supplicate.     Sorxa. 
Support.     Sorsa. 
Supervisor.     Arat. 


Swallow.     Awab. 
Sweat.     Ayax. 
Sweater.     Adem. 
Sweet  potatoes.     Vab. 
Swine.     Wad. 
Sympathize.     Olka. 


Table.     Yan. 

Take.     Ofa. 

Talk.     Ova. 

Tapioca.     Agav. 

Taste.     Asav. 

Table,  extension.     Yap. 

"       center.     Yaq. 

"       kitchen.     Yar. 
Tea.     Ahat. 
Tea,  Ceylon.     Ahav. 

"     Japan.     Ahaw. 

"     Paraguay.     Ahax. 

"     Kafta.     Ahay. 

"     Hyson.     Amhab. 

"     Gunpowder.     Amhac. 

"     green.     Amhad. 

"     black.     Amhaf. 

"     Chinese.     Amhag. 
Teakettle.     Yab. 
Teapot.     Yad. 
Teeth.     Atak. 
Telescopes.     Afej. 
Temple.     Asaf. 
Testicles.     Atar. 
Thanksgiving.     Almas. 
Thigh.     Avat. 
Throat.     Asaw. 
Thumb.     Avac. 
Timothy.     Sar. 
Tires,  buggy.     Alap. 
Tire  setting.     Alan. 
Tithe.     Alnal. 
Toes.     Avah. 
Toilet.     Xad. 
Tomatoes.     Nam. 
Tomatoes,  canned.     Afap. 
Tongue.     Alav,  asat. 
Tools.     Aqef. 
Toolchest.     Aqeg. 
Top  buggy.     Ajar. 
Tourist.     Axap. 
Tourist  car.     Ajay. 


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Town.     Apad. 
Township.     Anaw. 
Traces.     Sah. 
Track.     Alal. 
Traveler.     Axaq. 
Trout.     Adaw. 
Trunk.     Aqeb. 
Trustee.     Ayah. 
Tubing.     Ahef. 
Turkey,  turkeys.     Wab. 
Turnips.     Nam. 

U 

Umbrella.     Away. 
Uncle.     Anaf. 
Ungodly.     Alpak. 
Unusual.     Uya. 
Upstairs.     Wax. 
Urin.     Atap. 
Usher.     Ayad. 


Vanilla.     Agaf. 
Vegetables.     Mat. 
Vehicles.     Ajan. 
Veins.     Ataf. 
Veranda.     Wat. 
Verdict.     Aral. 
Very.     Ulba. 
Vestry.     Ayac. 
Vice-consul.     Aqac. 
Village.     Apac. 
Vindicate.     Sorma. 
Violin.     Ayaw. 
Voice.     Asay. 
Vomit.     Awac. 


W 


Wages.     Awaq. 
Wagon.     A  jap. 


Wagon  bed.     Alaw. 
Wagon  harness.     Rax. 
Wagon  tire.     Alam. 
Walk.     Oba. 
Walnut.     Qam. 
Walnut,  English.     Gan. 

"         French.     Qap. 
Want.     Oja. 
Ward.     Apag. 
Wash  bowl.     Abam. 
Wash  stand.     Abal. 
Water.     Ajac. 
Water  front.     Xat. 
Watermelons.     Rad. 
Weak.     Buga. 
Weep.     Sorga. 
Wheat.     Tag. 
Wheat,  buck.     Tan. 
winter.     Tab. 

"       spring.     Taj. 
Wheat  flakes.     Acas. 
Wheel.     Alaq. 
Whiffletrees.     Amab. 
Whiskers.     Awah. 
White  fish.     Adax. 
Wife.     Amat. 
Will.     Oja. 
Window.     Xaf. 
Winter  Nellis.     Maf. 
Woman.     Amar. 
Work.     Oca. 
Worshiping.     Almal. 
Write.     Sorxa. 
Wrists.     Aval. 
Wrong.     Buma. 


Yell.     Sorfa. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion.    Almay. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Portrait — Frontispiece 

Title  Page    1 

Copyrights -. 2 

Motto 3 

Aim  and  Object 4 

Preface 5 

Introduction 7 

Keyboard  and  explanations 12,  46 

Sounds  of  letters  and  pronunciation  of  words 19 

THE  SCIENTIFIC  DIAL  PRIMER — 

Lesson   I.,    Description 20 

Lesson  II.,  Numerical  values 20 

Lesson  III.,  Decimal  fractions 22 

Lesson  IV.,  Combining  whole  numbers  with  decimals 23 

Lesson  V.,  More  than  one  consonant  to  the  Grand  Division  vowel 24 

Lesson  VI.,  Vowels  used  outside  Grand  Divisions 24 

Lessons  VII.,  VIII.  &  IX.,  Analytical  Exercises 26,  30,  35 

Lesson  X.,  Days,  weeks,  months,  and  years 37 

Lesson  XL,   Analytical   Exercises 39 

Lesson  XII.,  Telegrams  and  demonstration  of  keys 42 

Code  Department 47 

Travelers'  Code 63 

Lbvers'  Code 77 

Leap-year  Code 99 

Greetings 137 

Pronouns,  adjectives,  adverbs  and  verbs 143,  144 

Vocabulary,  English  Dial   148 


INDEX 


PAGE  PAGE 

A  commonplace  life 142  Analytical  Exercises,  Lesson  VII.     28 

A  blessing  in  disguise 104  Analytical  Exercises,  Lesson  VIII     30 

Adverbs.    .  .      143  Analytical  Exercises,  Lesson  IX.     35 

ItyS^:://////."^  HI  Analytical  Exercises,  Lesson  XL     39 

Adjectives      143  Another  proposal 

All-conquering  Love 100  Apples 

Aim  4  A  pearl  among  women 

A  little' marveL  '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.     83  Artless  and  true 116 

Amusing  story 134  Answer  to  prayer 89 

Amusing  cleverness 108  A  table  substitute 17 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Attempted  universal  languages.  16 

At  the  railroad  station 63 

At  the  garage.  .*. 65 

At  the  lunch  counter 63 

Are    our   ministers    ignorant    or 

negligent  ? 130 

Barber,  With  the 73 

Barn 53 

Beautiful  illustration 100 

Beauty  of  early  marriage 137 

Berries 52 

Betty  had  a  mind  of  her  own.  ...  103 

Birthday  greetings 137 

Blissful  matrimony 139 

Blissful  harvest 140 

Breakfast  food 54 

Building  material 49 

Businessman  led  into  captivity.  .  116 

By  steamer 72 

Canned  goods 55 

Captive,  The 116 

Cause  of  female  ailments 97 

Change  of  cars 64 

Charges 65 

Children  playing  hide  and  seek 

in  the  clouds 135 

Christmas  greetings 141 

Church 58 

Code  Department 47 

Codewords 10 

Coffee 55 

Combining  whole  numbers  with 

decimals,   Lesson  IV 23 

Communication 65 

Complex  or  zigzag  keys 46 

Conditional  acceptance 95 

Consonant  values 21,  34 

Contracting 48 

Control  of  natural  forces 135 

Cordial  acceptance  and  new  pro- 
posal     123 

Correspondence 66 

Curtain  dropped 1 14 

Curtain  lifted 110 

Days,  weeks,  months  and  years, 

Lesson  X 37 

Daughter  to  her  mother 140 

Degree,  the  specific  unit 17 

Delicately  beautiful 122 

Delicate  position 125 

Deliver  from  torment 82 

Description,  Lesson  1 20 

Division  of  property 127 

Divine  guardianship 133 

Disgusting  profanity 94 

Domestic  animals 53 

Drinks 55 

Dry  goods 61 

Dwelling  house 54 


PAGE 


Easter  greetings 

Emancipation 

Engagement 

Engagements  and  meetings.  .  . 
Environment  and  literature .  .  . 

Esperanto 

Evolution  or  Revolution?.  . 


142 
136 
112 

47 
132 

16 
135 


Farming  utensils 56 

Feed 53 

Filial  acknowledgment 140 

Final    arrangement 127 

Finding  destination 64 

Fish 55 

Fixing  the  date  for  wedding.  ...  118 

Flavors 55 

Flour 55 

Formula 18 

Fractions,  Decimal,  Lesson  III .  .  22 

Fractions,  Common,  Lesson  IX.  .  35 

From  friendship  to  love 108 

Fruit 52 

Furniture 54 

Gentlemen's    furnishing    depart- 
ment   60 

God  is  Love 137 

Grain 53 

Grand  Division  values 21 

Grapes 52 

Great  Day 135 

Greetings 137 

Growing  in  interest 133 

Gustavus  Adolphus  II.,  King  of 

Sweden; 117 

Hardware : 49 

Hat  department 60 

Have  it  your  own  way,  darling .  .  89 

Have  not  reciprocated 94 

Home,  Sweet  Home 68,  120 

How  it  was  done 100 

Hugging  and  kissing  by  telegraph  67 

Humanity 56 

Human  body 57 

Introduction 7 

Insulting  treatment 87 

It  makes  me  blush 90 

Its  use  in  merchandising 16 

Its  use  in  homes  and  schools.  ...  17 

Key  Diagram 13 

Keys,  twelve  distinct  classes.  ...  11 
Keys  for  Marconi's  wireless 

system 14 

Key  telegram 44 

Kissing  and  hugging  by  telegraph  67 

Kitchen  utensils 54 

Ladies'  furnishing  department.  .  61 

Leap-year  Code 99 


INDEX. 


Leap-year  privileges. 

Liability 

Little  things 

Livery  stable 

Lovers'  Code 

Lovely  telegrams.  .  .  . 
Love  triumphant.  .  .  . 


PAGE 

.  115 

.  132 

.  129 

.  65 

.  77 

.  67 

81 


Magnanimity 119 

Meaning  of  suffixes 26 

Men's  miscellaneous :  .  .  .  60 

Miscellaneous '  58 

More  than  one  consonant  to  the 

Grand  Division  vowel 24 

Most  fortunate  young  man 126 

Mother-in-law,  captivated 88 

Motherhood  would  not  risk,  What  127 

Mother's  obligation 130 

Mother's  undivided  reward 131 

Motto 3 

My  Diploma 86 

New- Year  greetings 142 

Notice  of  arrivals 51 

Numerical  values,  Lesson  II.  ...  20 

Nuts 52 

Object 4 

Officers. 57 

On  the  train 63 

Paint 49 

Papa's  kisses 67 

Parents  refuse 95 

Pears 52 

Peaches 52 

Pies 55 

Played  on  nerve  strings 69 

Plums 52 

Political  divisions 56 

Preface 5 

Pronouns 143 

Pronunciation    of    words 19 

Provision 54 

Pudding 55 

Pure  and  unalloyed 83 

Queen  of  Sweden 117 

Queen  and  ruler  of  the  house ....  87 

Responsibility 132 

Resplendent  and  beautiful 87 

Responsory 92 

Reversal 115 

Revolution,  The  fire  of 135 

Robin  Redbreast  story 108 

Ruler  of  the  universe 136 

Scientific  Dial,  an  evolution.  ...  7 
Scientific  Dial,  universal  in  con- 
struction and  character 11 


PAGE 

Secondary  numerical  values 18 

Servants  may  be  hired  for  money  87 

Sham-code,  its  use 47 

Shipments 50 

Shipments,  f .o.b 51 

Shipments,  c.o.d 51 

Shoe  department 61 

Son  to  his  mother. -.  .  .  .  140 

Sounds  of  letters 19 

Stationery 59 

Stork  versus  the  poodle  dog.  ...  99 

Stored  up  blessings 135 

Straight  to  the  point 121 

Sugar 55 

Tea 55 

Telegrams    28,  42 

The  better  way 17 

The  old  clock  dial  needs  no  inter- 
preter   8 

The  substitute 16 

Travelers'  Code 63 

The  Criminal 70 

The  Welcome 71 

The  old  clock  dial 93 

Through  the  dramshop 94 

The  fool  saith 94 

The  bloom  intact 96 

Three  years  passed 104 

The  real  crisis 103 

The  twentieth  anniversary 113 

True  love  and  a  real  home 121 

The  gates  of  Paradise 131 

Two  requisites 1 

The  third  dispensation 134 

Unassuming  modesty 118 

Under  probation 85 

Under  advisement 85 

Unfeigned  faith  and  purity 96 

Universal  languages 16 

Universal   language   acquired   in 

a  week 15 

Vegetables 52 

Vehicles 56 

Verbs 144 

Visit  to  Ponderosa 134 

Volapiik 

Well-tested  affection 82 

Weather,  conditions  of 74 

Weather,  conditions  affecting 

crops 76 

What  will  become  of  him? 130 

When  love  is  genuine 92 

Winning  a  bride 80 

Widow,  The 125 

Widow  lonesomeness 125 

Wives  appreciate  clean  husbands  139 
Wives,  shirkers,  defeat  divine 

purpose 128,  131 


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